Comment by appreciatorBus

Comment sections are not the only venue for us to speak to each other and we must be able to consider that they might actually make the problem worse.

Other venues - real life, talking to people in person - telephones, audio & video calling, talking to people - writing op-eds, blog posts, sub-stack newsletters - podcasts

None of these of course produce the dopamine hit of seeing your likes/retweets/karma go up and that of your opponents going down though, so we would have to give that up. I think that's a good deal.

We can call internet comment infrastructure "community" but that doesn't mean it actually is one or functions to enhance community.