Quoting Annalee Newitz on the death of social media

One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. Luckily, journalists and creators are finally figuring out how to leave the old media models behind and enter the future. [&hellip;] Platforms such as X, Facebook and TikTok were made for mass consumption. Every post, video and…