Welcome to the new web. Nothing is optimal, it’s a good intro for people. The setting is there and that’s what matters.

That’s what I meant, but appreciate the clarification.

I just block the bots, I want to see what real people care enough to post.

I have been peaking over at reddit periodically, morbid curiosity really. Schadenfreude.

The number of apathetic users who thinks that protesting has accomplished nothing is unsurprising, logically, but is viscerally a gut punch. The fate of social media and the internet at large is important as its a stepping stone (often times overvalued but important none the less) to addressing bigger societal issues. The fact that so many people don’t care about an issue as it doesn’t effect them directly and they have no curiosity or empathy on how/why it’s impacting other, bluntly fucking sucks. It makes the bigger issues seem even more unsolvable.