[smokel]

A lot of communication happens online, but that doesn't make it great. Most communication online is unidirectional, dishonest, or plain wrong.

Before the internet, there was television (the drug of a nation...). I fail to see how social media actually improves communication. By all means it seems to spread disinformation faster, but it does not seem to lead to constructive thought. Even here on Hacker News, discussions can last only up to a day typically.

I personally don't care for all this to go away. We didn't win much by it, we won't lose much.

You wouldn't have had a big "friends bubble" in the 1990s, you may have had the illusion of having a big one in the early 2020s. Democracy is not built on that illusion.