Those three points are related. Facebook/Twitter/Et al wanted to play gatekeeper and now are becomining festering corpses, which has made the disparate online i

Those three points are related. Facebook/Twitter/Et al wanted to play gatekeeper and now are becomining festering corpses, which has made the disparate online identity problem worse. Because these platforms are gamified, they are worth gaming and gave rise to lots of fake automated content. Go search "best tablet" or "best lawnmower" for several hundreds of thousands of examples. Or look at Twitter. Instead of any of these achieving a plaza of conversations, people are farther apart than they were to begin with.