First is that I’ve never seen this at all. Second is that they generally *know* each other. They are responding to friends and people they’ve met in person because that’s who you notice when you have tons of replies.
What you are seeing is *familiarity* among those who have tons of people who try to interact with them, not some pseudo-elitism or whatever you seem to be suggesting.
Yeah, we’re all guilty of it. I don’t have a bajillion followers, but I try and interact with as many as I can, but sometimes comments get missed with all the notifications.
I have however had replies from many on that list and none of them are following me, so they do interact outside of their circles when they have time or commentary.
Can confIrm. I'm but a lowly pleb but have had chats with Guy, Eric, Matt and other "big" accounts on the bird app before ditching it for nostr.
