the platforms suburbanized the Internet, making it easy to avoid all the people who make you uncomfortable, by giving you, instead of the space you're in, the locus of curation
I've thrived in the spaces that still built themselves within there, that were interconnected and had a continuity outside of the personal model of my social network represented as my "following" and "followers" lists, but i get the impression most do not, and instead simply see it as rss. good fences make good neighbors, after all
