“This is what it feels like to pay for the product instead of being the product: There is an experience and a service with relatively clear limits that I obtain in exchange for money, rather than a series of traps to avoid or puzzles to solve in exchange for the possibility that I might forget for a few hours at a time all the things that give me anxiety.”

Why would anyone subscribe to a social media platform?
The lost quality of "Doesn't Make Me Wish I Was Dead"
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