Comment by ux266478

The point is that it's not about connection in the slightest. There's more to community than friendship.

> You like having middlemen?

Consider this, there still has to be someone to maintain that machine. What's the point then, exactly, except to pretend like the people around us don't exist? And just because they're not the closest people to us? I'm afraid I don't see the upside, actually.