My personal gripe with traditional social media platforms is not the wealth generated through them, or the data-privacy issues (although they are both so important).
But the power / ability to form or skew public opinion [1]. Even small changes in their suggestion or censorship programs could have vast implications on public speech and opinion. I wish not to give them the power to hold my own beliefs, or to experiment with new ones.
[1] https://reason.com/2024/08/29/mark-zuckerberg-meta-letter-censorship-facebook/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
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