There are multiple facets to the problem. Technical site performance is a very small part of those. The disruption, manipulation, and most of all erosion of t

There are multiple facets to the problem. Technical site performance is a very small part of those. The disruption, manipulation, and most of all erosion of trust which bad-faith actors create (AI or otherwise) are the most serious issues in my experience. The concept of "evaporative cooling", in which a platform starting to go bad sees an accelerated departure of well-intentioned, high-value participants. See the original article from 2010: <https://web.archive.org/web/20101012105003/https://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-cooling-effect/ https://web.archive.org/web/20101012105003/https://blog.bumb...> (HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665>). And an interesting follow-up, 2015: <https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporative-cooling-effect-in-social-network/ https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporativ...> (HN discussion, from 2025: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42597962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42597962>).