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I will switch if something better comes along that is decentralized.
The profit motive poisons everything and turns it to shit. I won't join a social again if it can be purchased to turn me into another metric on a spreadsheet for someone to sell.
That's a key part of the dialogue. Social media is not quite infrastructure, and it's not a service that can be monetized without moral hazard of some kind. It should therefore be owned and operated by communities.