Reflecting on "dead" communities, engagement, and AI

Admittedly this is a bit ranty, and if that's not your jam, feel free to skip. I stopped scrolling most social media feeds when the slop arrived. First it came in the form of images, big awkward hero images that were psychedelic or had too many arms and fingers. Then it shifted to listicle after listicle. Then the articles that inserted a new line after every... single... sentence. I was over it. The personal voice and opinions were gone. The images were uncomfortably odd for my brain to process. The attention grabbing tactics were at an all time high and it just wasn't doing it for me anymore. So I stopped scrolling. The community that existed on those platforms were dead to me. This means I missed things like your promotion or new job or even some significant tech news. Eventually the important things did find me, but I never found myself missing scrolling. I took that energy to engage somewhere else. Fast forward to people saying "this community is dead" or "that community has an en