while I agree with your overall sentiment, and yet still hope people keep working to make it wrong, no matter how hopeless it may be or appear to be.. a few mor

while I agree with your overall sentiment, and yet still hope people keep working to make it wrong, no matter how hopeless it may be or appear to be.. a few more thoughts to ponder... I know of several people who have been temp-banned by fbk, and there are certainly many more - and those folks start looking for alternatives to day it happens, and they could each bring 6 or more people with them, even if only for 30 days or so.. so "designed to retain you, no matter the cost" - may be true in regards to 'no matter the cost to users' - they seem to be spending money to over-moderate and dis-retain some. Also I believe one of the six bills up in congress about reigning in tech overpower, has mentions of making data more portable.. I saw something where fbk made it so you can export your posts to wordpress.. as preemptive as that may be - it does not make it a thing to pull your groups info, marketplace stuff.. and it's possible we could have legislative action to make it easier to mirror stuff from the giants to other portals - this would make it much easier to transfer regular use off their platforms.. It's interesting you mention influencers - that can be a big piece of the puzzle with outsized network effects - one reasons I keep kicking the idea of having 'theUnbanned' or uncensored.. ungagged - something better sounding.. or something as a gateway to the fediverse.. it's not unusual to see popular people kicked form platforms and it shouldn't be too hard to take advantage of that with an easy to spin up new network for them.. I've seen more than a dozen opportunities from twitch in the past so many months..