Any other service will become like Facebook or worse unless people start paying directly for social media and privacy regulations get passed. The trend I've se

Any other service will become like Facebook or worse unless people start paying directly for social media and privacy regulations get passed. The trend I've seen is the emergence of services that exclusively cater to an echo chamber (usually far right or far left) and will probably monetize by selling that audience out to interests who want to reach that demographic. That I'm afraid is even worse than Facebook since it puts people into permanent filter bubbles from which they will not escape unless they leave the network. Facebook is like smoking in some ways, but there is one huge difference: the dynamics of the market forced Facebook to be like that or die. Since everything has to be "free" but nothing actually is, things can only be monetized in sleazy underhanded ways. "Free" is really the central pillar of surveillance capitalism just like it was for classic wall-to-wall advertisements television.