Puts to words a lot of my feelings about mainstream social media.
It’s a big ball of algorithms that skew “communication platforms” away from facilitating the thing they were created for.
If you’re not spending as much time in comment sections, actually reading what people have to say, and writing responses, as you do scrolling, that media ain’t “social”.
And the communication that does occur on most platforms, is parasocial. While that’s not inherently bad, facilitating only that kind of “exchange”, is.