Even here on Mastodon, #reciprocal #interaction has declined to near zero. I post thoughts and pictures of my art a lot and reply to posts of others to try to engage in dialogue.

Seems that anything effortful online is now subject to atrophy.

Chasms between people online and even more so when walking in public.

Chilling times where challenging someone walking into me without looking where they are going solicits at best a reflex, vacuous sorry ...