It isn't really 'the internet' but it _is_ 'the internet' that many people interact with unless they put in effort to find niche spaces. Any mainstream social

It isn't really 'the internet' but it _is_ 'the internet' that many people interact with unless they put in effort to find niche spaces. Any mainstream social media site is basically a trap designed to suck you into doomscrolling hell and a sense of permanent outrage and unease, and that goes for literally all of them. The big YT creators are the political outrage ones - that's easy to miss if you mostly follow creator channels which have relatively tiny audiences. 'I left youtube playing videos about gaming and three hours later my entire feed is hitler enthusiasts' is a commonly expressed sentiment. That 'the algorithm' sucks people into extremism isn't widely argued, discord is well known as 'groomercord' for the same reason... Even in the 'good old days' of usenet the fun clubby newsgroups where people would share their stories without being snarked at - because they were amongst friends - were massively outnumbered by the bottomless pits of snark and bitterness such as found on the average 'tech' group. The greenspun forums were nice, but they were nice because, like here, some tireless mentor stepped in to call out those who got too snarky and carried away. I really think it's something that just doesn't scale well.