And yeah, people will say “but they’re useful to me” which mihy be at least somewhat true.
However, the fact is that 99% of the time they’re used as a tool to further enshittify our offline and online lives with the most mid bullshit content; by way of stealing content from human authors while also wasting exorbitant amounts of resources and contributing to the climate catastrophe.
So yes, they’re a scam.