i can’t believe i’m saying this, but i’m finding myself enjoying facebook more. the UI and design feels vintage early 2010s, the choice of reactions is nice vs just liking or upvoting something, you can sort the replies by chronology / recent / best instead of being forced to read blue-check morons, there’s an incredible depth of content, hobby groups, local interests, etc that simply couldn’t exist on twitter. it feels more like a forum.
it does also suck, of course, but it sucks in a slightly less grating way than reddit and twitter.
I’m with you in missing that brief era where we could just be truly social online and it felt like a healthy extension of real life dynamics