You're not half wrong. Bad tools can amplify or encourage poorer or worse manifestations of our character, or persona. Legacy social media is primarily tokenized with dopamine and transitory validation, negative expressions produce more dopamine.

Given its transient nature, and diminishing enjoyment from each subsequent dose of dopamine and associated neurotransmitters, you get people chasing their own addition to the responses in their brain chemistry with more and more negative communications. Legacy social media requires some additional effort to use and consume well.