Dude you weren’t kidding. “New” was always a pile of ass, and just now I went back to Reddit for a little bit just to poke around and see how “new new” is. It was better for the first two things I clicked on (actually better than both old and new IMO for popping open memes and pictures), and then I clicked on an actual thread, and (1) the thread was clearly a fake story (2) it broke the back button and I couldn’t go anywhere else until it snapped me suddenly back to mbin again.
I decided to take that as a sign
Everyone wants to belong
Everyone wants allies, close friends, brothers and sisters they can rely on and love and support
In the modern world we have pale imitations and crap. There is no village, there is only a dim landscape through which we shuffle, largely alone.
And so there is craving for some substitute, because the under structure is unfulfilled