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Yes, I very much agree with this. For me it's not about nostalgia for an earlier time in life, it's about wishing my social group wasn't so distributed across different platforms and finding it hard to put the time and energy into keeping up with everyone across the myriad of different social services (or none) they now choose to use, as compared to the days of LJ when everyone in my social group was neatly concentrated on one platform.

I also find that because of this distribution and the nature of the new platforms, the quality of discourse has waned. When everyone was concentrated on a platform that valued long form text discourse with threaded comments, there was a lot of in depth discussion. Now that things are distributed, everyone is time poor trying to keep up, and several of those platforms are ones that were built around short form text and/or images, it feels a lot harder to engage in in-depth discussion, as it's harder to get and keep people's attention in conversation.