Social Media Platforms Are All the Same

And many of us are trying to quit them

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What do you do when you’re bored? For years the answer was probably unique to you: you pursued your own hobby or your own uniquely bad habit. But chances are, in 2021, there is a fairly standard answer to this question: you open an app on your computer or phone that contains an algorithmically sorted list of user-generated content…