With "drama" I was going for the built-in drive towards negativity and sensationalist stuff.

Oh I got you. Yeah. That sucks. I'm probably going to have to keep myself less informed. I spent the first year of Trump arguing with people that every little thing he did wasn't the literal worst thing in the world. He fired a bunch of political appointees, just like every President, and it was doomsday for a week. I can't handle the handwringing every single day.

Even late in his presidency when he actually was doing terrible shit on a constant basis was so stressful. I swear it aged me ten years. I'm not doing that shit again.

We'd need easy payment methods, value the labour of the journalists

Yeah. The incentives are all fucked up in journalism now. No one pays for just solid news, it looks like. They pay for sensational bullshit with their wallets and attention.

I think a lot of the unhealthy dynamics aren't baked into the internet itself, but due to people making everything about money and advertising

Yeah. Any fix which comes from changing people isn't a fix at all. We aren't going to change except through conditioning. Maybe education but that's such a fucking uphill battle right now itself.

Worst part is, other than some wankery in the internet, most people aren't interested in reflecting on this or making any attempt to solve it. I'm worried we're headed into a cycle war and conflict after a hundred years of relative peace. Maybe that will change things, though that means change is in the other side of a lot of pain and suffering (which is a great catalyst for change but I don't want my kids or grandkids to have to go through that).

Have a good one, mate.