Tracker nods along quietly as Alex continues his diatribe on social media platforms.
"I suppose that's a fair assessment of the situation at large. For myself, I've never had an account on any of those platforms, except for a few months on a Mastodon instance after which I deleted it due to the low signal to noise ratio. Perhaps it's just the old techie in me clinging to the comfortable nostalgia of earlier, simpler means of communication, but I still just use calls, plain old SMS texts, and email for ephemeral communication with the world. Anything that I want to persist for future reference, I prefer to host on Gemini and usually proxy to the web. The communities that embrace these slower platforms just seem a lot more genuine and invested in their conversations than the lightning-fast, doom-scrolling-driven communication models of modern social media platforms. Anyway...that's just my 2 cents on the matter."
Shrugging, Tracker goes back to his tea.
Tracker, you must be Cal Newport.