!animalswithat It was on a broken kbin instance that stop existing a few weeks later.

I think it happened to me more than this once but every example I can remember is one or two people answering or a least a ten or a dozen upvote. So I came up with the conclusion that on the threadiverse small or inactive community are not dead: they are sleeping. And a bunch of lurkers or commenters are waiting for a poster to publish anything.