It seems bad that huge centralized social networks like Twitter have such societal influence and can unilaterally decide to do stuff like this, and all users ca

It seems bad that huge centralized social networks like Twitter have such societal influence and can unilaterally decide to do stuff like this, and all users can do is trust them not to fuck it up. There's an obvious way around this: use a decentralized, open source social network like Mastodon or Pleroma instead. You don't have to trust any one group not to screw things up, because you can just switch instances or forks if they do. But unfortunately, because of network effects, alternative social networks are not very good for people who care about reaching a very wide audience.