Analog film photography and cameras

(...) I wish I could articulate properly why I'm starting to dislike Flickr, but I think i'll sum it down to the goddamned "like" button mentality. Discussion border line becomes pointless. Same goes for 500px and the majority of other "Photo" sites.
We generally spend a very very short amount of time absorbing an image (research shows in the region of around 3 seconds) which is barely enough time, now it's all digitized combined with easy means of expressing yourself i.e favourite/star/like (don't get me wrong, I don't dislike digital, I shoot mainly that) all patience with "creating" a picture is gone and it's replaced with the equivalent of photo diarrhea online and seeing what sticks.
Fine, I accept that the majority of the population shoots for fun, but what those two trends do in combination is erode any need to savor an image, instead, it feels like it just breeds laziness. (...)

I feel ya.

There are some serious photographers on there still, but - due to what you descibed & some other reasons - they're going to leave I think.
It's still possible to take your stuff seriously and produce good work of course, but flickr is now more than ever like what McDonald's is for food. So it becomes a bit like casting pearls before swine. The audience changes.
IMO you summed it up pretty good with "goddamned "like" button mentality".
Time to look out for better alternatives maybe.