What does your posting budget build: a wide audience or a circle that comes back? Broadcasts light up people on the outer ring for an hour; each reply pulls one person inward, 2 units per point of tie.
Try this Compare Broadcast only with Conversation first at the same eight actions per day: lasting-conversations ends at 0 against about 12. Then try Always someone new, which spreads the same replies thinly (familiar-share 0) and ends with 2 to 5.
About this model Where it ends up
A MathPets experiment on one posting tradeoff: the same number of actions can go to broadcasts that many people see once, or to replies that build a few lasting ties. You are the center; the 48 people sit on a ring and move inward as your tie with them grows.
Each half-hour tick adds posts-per-day/48 to an action budget, so fractional rates accumulate. reply-share percent of actions are replies. A reply goes to one person, picked with weight (1 + tie)² for ties below 6 in familiar-share percent of actions and uniformly otherwise; it adds 1 to that tie, up to 7. A broadcast reaches each person with probability broadcast-reach/48. Every tie loses tie-decay/100 per day. The five sliders are read every tick.
Connecting X sets only your username, posting rate and reply percentage. The 48 people, exposure rate, preference for familiar people, and tie decay are hypothetical. A lasting conversation means a tie score of at least three. This experiment does not reconstruct your audience or predict engagement.
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