I am a lurker. I have zero followers, and as such writing the nth comment on a Tweet with often n>100 is pointless, even before Musk took over.
I also don't have the time or the energy to put out quality content. It is draining to put out good content and have a handful of moaners criticise it in a toxic manner.
It is even worse if they criticise your content, because 3 years ago you said something about Musk/Tesla that wasn't 100% positive.
The joys of lurking or being a low-volume is when you follow some people and they do something interesting that you may have done, or you might have the little interesting data point. It sometimes happens you have published a paper on the exact topic but in another field, or you're wondering whether there's a connection to something you know.
It's an amazing way to reach very interesting people doing very interesting things and to be amazed almost every day (if you like to learn, or just like human ingenuity). It needs curating, and liberal use of blocking, muting... but having (or watching) a short conversation with a security expert, programming language warrior, database benchmarker, or HPC researcher is something I feel I couldn't do elsewhere.
You can block people replying to other people. You can have an account and be a lurker (which mostly can be reduced to 'read-only'). You're not participating in any conversation, just filtering the content that is presented to you.
I also don't have the time or the energy to put out quality content. It is draining to put out good content and have a handful of moaners criticise it in a toxic manner.
It is even worse if they criticise your content, because 3 years ago you said something about Musk/Tesla that wasn't 100% positive.