> it just goes to show how the internet and the people on it create a vast but very vocal minority of opinions that are not worth listening to in the real world

I saw this criticism of Twitter, way before Musk bought it, possibly even before Trump became president. This [0] story from 2018 was about journalists paying too much attention

It does feel like Twitter and Facebook are shadows of their former selves though - partly because on the rare days I go to facebook, it rarely has anything on from humans, partly because it's not covered in news that "Blah Blah said Blah on Platform". That's a good thing.

I'm uncertain what drives Meta's continual growth

[0] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/journalists-on-twitter-s...