There's so much conscious cultivation of fandom personas and backlash against "cringe" and it's odd

This sounds more like influencer culture from other social media sites and catch me saying straight up that it has no place in fandom. Mmmhmm. Egalitarian culture is incompatible with people shutting people down for liking stuff or thinking about stuff.

or interact on PF (when it's operational)

I got that email today and heaved a big internal sigh. It's the effort involved when it just...was unavailable for so long.