' Engagement ' is needed asap- perhaps not the fake financially measured kind of engagement for social media BUT taking EXACTLY those type of things Capitalism supplies a core for and feeds from (system see you are replying back to users and gives you higher % score) and just do it ourself perhaps with a bit of Mastodon statistics (I wrote more about more-harmless stats before).
Feels like I could orchestra engagement even just on my own (there only a few a people actually active here) but really the many to many ants approach is what's going to do it.

(notice I say ants, not sheep)

If you want help making this idea then let me know - my server seems less fertile in this and I'll be happy to help you steal it and get domination in the people sense (of dominating themselves).

Not engaging each other is definitely not the way. I think engagement can be comments but really is much more than that...