@acegikmo Thanks for articulating this, and I feel the same grief for what we're losing. As that beloved firehose we drank from, filled with the care of excited strangers making things for each other, is steadily contaminated by AI-generated sewage, I'm choosing to search for joy and connection in the places and people closer to home, which are still tangible and meaningful. It really feels like a dark age is coming, and I hate that we have to accept loss and act in a survival rather than growing mindset, but at least we have each other. (Mastodon in particular has been a real refuge of actual humans interacting free of algorithms, and at least so far not exploited, and I really appreciate that.)