Envy

Its smug aura mocks me

Absolutely agreed, but also a way to filter information from the masses as a whole. Bread and circuses and all that

Thats not what theyre referring to. If you search “does donald trump have dementia”, the ai prompt doesnt respond from its gathered results. Someone physically disabled the function.

By nature and definition, social media is any platform that without users there would be no content. Vbulletin forums et al actually fall into that scope.

And gods do I miss them. Used to have a website i’d go for every niche discussion, and if there were points in the forum it was usually for gimmicky flash games or something and not for clout

I hate that we call social media debate platforms.

CEOs found a way to divide us with the internet. I hate what it became