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Maybe pianos were enough. Radio has made it so families no longer gather round and sing in the evenings and TikTok is even worse than radio

It depends; not everything that's newer is automatically better.

Web and websites did the heavy lifting of instant and world-wide information sharing.

With social media, open or closed, there are many non-obvious tradeoffs; I am not sure whether on the whole, we are better off with or without them - time will tell

Even if the information consumers are 99% of the users, making the features available for the content creators leads to much better content. Plus people want the ability to be able to post content if they need to. I shall point to the /r/ask* subreddits as an example.

Hacker News doesn't allow you to build an audience, so every post has to appeal to the average HN reader to get attention.