Resonates for me. I consume a bunch of content daily, but it's RSS mostly. Gemini, too. None of it is Facebook et al. I am in groups with friends and family on Signal and on Discord, and in email.

It feels more boring, for sure, but it is vastly more satisfyingly "human", if I can describe it that way.

Yes, I'm over 50.

Strong agree. I switched back to RSS after trying social media. Much more boring. And that has been a very good thing. It's also been much more substantive. It's like eating your veggies vs eating sugar candy.

Why should we believe that "being entertained" is a valuable thing? I suppose it serves an evolutionary purpose as "steering focus", e.g. noticing the unusual/novel/scary/etc. But, it's not the end goal. And overloaded attention mechanisms sounds like an obvious misfeature.

What Gemini are you and the author referring to? I presume not the LLM Gemini by Google?

Ah the Gemini protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)