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> I thought it would bring people together, but instead, it's used to find and create new ways in which we can group and hate each other.

As McLuhan wrote, "The Medium is the Message". AFAICT, the medium known as "the web" is (paradoxically) not about interconnection, but its core property is fragmentation.

This intrinsic nature is turbocharged via algorithmic per-user "engagement optimization".