>>984
Frequently but briefly. Mostly responding to messages, looking something up, or when on the toilet (now).

I think the main thing that got me to this point was the internet landscape changing so drastically in the last 15 years to where it was overwhelmingly catering to the two extreme ends of the internet population. The turbo-normals got the social media boom, politics as a hobby/identity, and the new home of mainstream entertainment while the tech geeks got an expansion of programming/tech content, crypto, and whatever else is big in those circles. The middle portion that I feel was the plurality if not majority back in the early 2000s (at least that's what it seemed like to me) either dropped out or got driven into one of those two camps. The final blow was sites like Reddit and services like Discord killing off a lot of internet communities by centralizing everything by being extremely easy to access. The much lower barrier to entry and lack of the forum-style social dynamic (which in hindsight was a good mechanism for maintaining a semblance of community) made them much more popular. I've never been a Reddit user, but it always struck me as being a very impersonal environment. This all makes me think of IRC channels tied to some larger site or community. In contrasts, the IRC channels always acted as a companion to any given community, whereas these new sites and services are often replacements. Anyway, I have to flush and wash my hands now. I never really thought to much about this until now, so it's a lot of disjointed and not fully formed thoughts strung together.