Highly recommend reading the entire @eff article. Love the call-out on how we hold each other hostage on other networks, but there are so many other great points like the "connect willing speakers to willing listeners". In other words, I want to see content that I subscribe to instead of some algorithm's recommendations. #socialmedia #rightToExit #platformDecay

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

From: @JanAlbrecht
https://respublicae.eu/@JanAlbrecht/110364151624592674

As Platforms Decay, Let’s Put Users First

The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone conclusion. Instead, we got here through a series of conscious actions by big businesses and lawmakers that put antitrust law into a 40-year coma....

Electronic Frontier Foundation