"I want people to interact with me over a story on account of having something to say about what I offered freely"

Oh, me too, but there's hopefully a way to encourage people (outside of the fic itself) to push ourselves in the middle of our endless "on to the next" dopamine hunt to leave fb when a fic has touched us in some way. I'm as guilty as the next person of just moving on without commenting, but I have really been trying to stop myself and make the effort first.