Social media is becoming less a place to communicate with people and more just a place to navigate the hierarchy of potential conversations.

That's totally something a bot would say to blend in ;-)

Or asking baiting questions just to appear intellectually connected?

nice try clanker

Sounds a lot like X these days.

Of course it does. People are using forums and social media to connect, however flimsily, with other people.

Replacing that with bots and thinking that's equivalent is actually really sad