The Bubble Wrap Conundrum; or, The Balkanization Of Social Media Didn't Solve Social Media

This is probably a very silly thing to write about. When I saw the takes I'm about to describe, I thought it was cartoonish, hardly readable as a real argument that could be made. Yet, I've seen them with my very eyes, I know them to truly be a statement someone said with confidence, with their whole chest. You, dear reader, just have to trust me that it was real. That trust will be stretched here. Before I jump into the main focus of this post, I want to make it very clear that I try my best to be reasonable on my blog. This is where I can place my thoughts in a more precise manner than I can on microblogging sites, and the culture of Cohost while it ran truly encouraged me to think hard about what I wanted to say. Of course, sometimes I write some things here that are written in a dazed, dissociative state and I sometimes worry that those posts are poorly articulated and hard to understand, or perhaps inflammatory in a way I don't want them to be. So it's not like ALL of my posts…