@elfburgerman Unfortunately not likely. She's 18 and yesterday was her first day on her new college campus. Friends are important, and corporate social media is where her friends are.

The sad thing is they don't have any viable alternative that isn't toxic. The Fediverse is never going to work at that scale; it would have huge problems with moderation and safety, for example. So kids are stuck with this, and we (that is, our corporate-owned politicians) are not going to change anything.

@elfburgerman I'd like to be wrong about that!

Yes, it's a good point that universities and colleges could have their own servers. But high schools and middle schools? I don't think they have the resources for moderation.* That's the age that kids are getting into social media. And when things went badly wrong with moderation in, say, a high school social network (think bullying, suicide) it's a very different thing from when that happens in a corporate network. Weirdly.)

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* The footnote is that in an ideal world we would make this happen and not allow corporate social media to distort the minds of our young people. But our politicians are owned by the capitalists, and ordinary people take the current system for granted and can't imagine any alternative. In fact they're terrified of anything else. (Which would be "socialism" of course.)