Agreed! It's a safe space in which you can write an actual post and have people actually read the whole thing without being told three lines are a wall of text or being spat at in chatspeak.
There's no need to be liked or unliked, and no pressure to respond to something at x time or y time.
One of the people I know in another community keeps going on about the need for 'content'. Sometimes I don't want to give the internet 'content'. Sometimes I would like people to see more than just "cute picture LOL".
The internet was a gateway for me when I was a teenager and young adult in a way I don't think it can be for young people any more. It was a place that gave people who struggled to explain things face to face in words a way to put them down coherently instead, and time to edit, think and rephrase before posting.
Now it's been reclaimed by mainstream and is full of rules and conventions and tropes and cliques and factions again, just like the rest of the real world is and always has been.
May the Arena never fall to those vices, since it's one of the few places where I am not afraid to post honestly.