I hope so too. I hope there will always be groups of people that prioritize actual discussion and learning over the dopamine hit of quick soundbites and clips. 

> Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.

I hope SN is able to avoid this indefinitely

billytheked

I found this article pretty interesting, and the author makes some good points. I had never quite connected all the dots like they do here, but I've definitely seen the quickening downward spiral of online media.