I’m sure it’s just coincidence that making the online world infrastructurally mandatory, then incredibly unpleasant & difficult, drives people straight into the tentacled arms of fawning, frictionless AI that will never tell you not to feel briefly sad that Dolly fucking Parton died.
That parts of the internet are already busy being nasty about Dolly Parton of all people shows so starkly how much the snuffing out of any positive, kind, pro-social feeling has become a bedrock, load-bearing industry.
If they can’t totally monetize your heart, they’ll happily monetize rotting it.