MySpace and Geocities gave people more customizability and it kinda made for easily tacky pages. The only major platform that still allows this is Tumblr. The

MySpace and Geocities gave people more customizability and it kinda made for easily tacky pages. The only major platform that still allows this is Tumblr. The clean looks of Facebook and Twitter have oddly kept them on top. But yes, to your point, you aren't the customer. You're the product (unless you're buying adspace .. in which case you're both). I recently started my own Mastodon instance and am just following random people on random instances and so far have some pretty funny/interesting feeds. It's actually a pretty friendly little fedverse.