The best site is IRL where you walk into a social setting where music is being played and humans are gathered to listen and react to the music.
Forums like this allow a person to get out a whole sentence (or several paragraphs) without bombarding eyeballs and earholes with ads and flashing 'likes' and thumbs-up alerts that trigger the dopamine flush.
Searching for a good social media website is like owning a soda-stream. Maybe it's possible to not buy the corn-syrup monstrosities churned out by the few megalithic soda monopolies, but you're tastebuds are still in a state of being habituated to sugary syrup and carbonation. Once you cut that out of your diet completely, you realize how grossly OTT it is and how nauseatingly over-sweet it is.
What happened to the commons? It was enclosed... in the Middle Ages.
After the bubonic plague killed 1/3 of the population in Europe from 1346 to 1353, the real wage of workers skyrocketed. Workers could demand higher wages or refuse to do work. Silvia Federici writes about this in
Caliban and the Witch and cites the many books about the topic. The next time there was a population decrease, there was no increase in the real wages of workers because money had abstracted the "contract" by which people had no recourse to subsistence and only to a wage that was outside of their control and as a result many starved to death while grain was being exported for "markets." This explains how the economic scare of the Pandemic (the momentary blip where people realized that they couldn't live unless somebody else grew their food and transported that food and healthcare workers and people who worked at grocery stores were momentarily "heroes" was quickly followed up by a mysterious and crippling "inflation" whereby any increase in the wages of any worker have now been swallowed back up by the arbitrary raising of prices).
Once money abstracts labor then humans lose sight of how much of their labor is being taken to "pay down the debt" that they "owe" because the system only works for corporations and their overlords by raising stock prices instead of being available to provide for their own sustenance (food/shelter/etc.). Social media embodies a new version of this form of "money-abstraction" whereby the "user" feels like they are being "entertained for free" when in fact they are giving away their labor for free and in doing so are training their AI replacements and simultaneously enriching the SM corporations that sell the data of "users" so that the "money abstraction" magic trick can continue to be brutally effective and efficient in draining all wealth from any of the remaining preexisting communal systems (the wealth or resources of foreign nations, public libraries, public utilities and power grids, government protection of the public interest, the upholding of the international rule of law, etc.).
Anachronistically we are told that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. But in the modern world our digital "fiddling" is fanning the flames of the conflagration with each character "stroke" we chop on the strings.
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