Back in the day when I was semi-sane, I'm pretty sure a lot of that was because of the presence of forums. Just a little avatar in the corner, the time of the post, and the thread. This forum is a little too far toward the "Post with comments" format, which is how the steem blockchain works, but it's pretty close.

Now be active dammit and bring others!

Oh ... and look into daisy-wheel printers. You may find yourself as obsessed as you already are with mechanical keyboards. Combine the two, and through the massive technological advances of the last hundred years, you too can have a ... a ...

a typewriter.