I don’t understand the point of the pedantry. Obviously I was talking about people you know personally that you know are not bots, and obviously I prefer and advocate for connecting with those you interact with offline. I don’t see how you can read my comment in good faith and take anything else from it.
It's quite simple: on socials, you don't get just what you want. You get what the algo wants you to want. "Social is where the people are" is naive and polyanna.
Social is where the accounts are, many of which have a nonhuman substrate with the goal of coercing alignment out of you.