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I agree wholeheartedly.
I'd only add, just because I've been thinking this a lot lately and have been looking for a chance to shove it out of my brain and out into the world, that I find much of the focus on Reddit to be sort of creepy.
There's something about the behavior of some of the people I see around here that very much reminds me of an obsessed ex-lover - like they've gone through a messy breakup and now they just can't let it go. Every conversation ends up being diverted into them whinging about their ex some more, they're obsessively stalking the ex's social media, hoping to see signs that they're miserable without them or just having a hard time in general, and they're potentially even sending them nasty messages, trying (almost certainly vainly) to make them suffer. They can't just let it go and get on with their lives.
And they really need to. That part of their lives is over, and it's time to move on. Clinging to it is not healthy, and frankly, to others, it's tedious, and sort of creepy.
What is creepier is referring to an app or social network like it’s a monogamous relationship. Like a person is somehow considered cheating if they visit more than one webpage ever in their life. Or that they are anything more than just a user visiting one webpage like it’s a cult or something. Or that feedback on how a dev is going is treachery to the idea that they are supposed to be in a symbiotic relationship where it’s supposed to be unconditional love.
Y’all are weird. This is a social network. it’s not your/others entire existence. Maybe touch some grass.
More like an addiction, than a relationship. No need to resort to baseless personal attacks.
It doesn't make the separation any easier, either. A clean break is sometimes necessary!