It is my belief that the optimization of all the current platforms towards advertising revenue has destroyed the value of these platforms for those other uses. Meta is so concerned with appeasing advertisers that it will happily suppress important free speech and, at the moment, Instagram is suffering a scandal because they introduced an antifeature that does nothing but kowtow to Trump.

I don’t disagree that networks are needed - I don’t think that any of the networks I mentioned can serve that purpose however. They are nothing more than slop shovelers that perpetuate outrage and disinformation.