> Social media is a cancer that's growing on society. We need to go back to smaller online presences instead of a "global village" as it were. Too many things t

> Social media is a cancer that's growing on society. We need to go back to smaller online presences instead of a "global village" as it were. Too many things to worry about in the world, and too many companies want to sell you fear with advertising. I feel like this is a big part of why Discord has gotten hugely popular. Communities are isolated and only semi-publicly accessible; most critically, they're not indexed by Google. On most servers, people are using aliases which are not (directly) linked to their real-life identities, but they're still people you get to know and befriend, unlike Reddit-likes where the people commenting are mostly interchangeable. These things make the internet feel a lot closer to how it was in the 90s and early 00s, where you could talk freely with your friends without worrying if someone with a grudge would take what you wrote and turn it into a mob-driven character assassination.