>It's all influencers (a word my dictionary doesn't even recognize), bots, hate speech, bickering, identity politics, and what have you. I think the first two

>It's all influencers (a word my dictionary doesn't even recognize), bots, hate speech, bickering, identity politics, and what have you. I think the first two words are your problem. "It's all". The internet isn't "all" anything. It's incredibly diverse. If all you see is that stuff, you need to change your approach. I spend lots of time on Twitter having very productive discussions in my field. I rarely if ever see bots, "influencers", hate speech. Occasional bickering, a bit of "identity politics", I guess - but that's because I chose to opt into it. And there are lots of great Slack channels, and StackOverflow, and Github Issues for conversations about things that interest me. I think the things you want on the Internet are still there, you just aren't finding them for some reason.