Aside from being businesses based primarily in mining usage data for profit, social media platforms are basically fleeting note disseminators for its users. It'

Aside from being businesses based primarily in mining usage data for profit, social media platforms are basically fleeting note disseminators for its users. It's allllll fleeting notes (with obvious exceptions). If you're asking how to share your ideas, and get lots of eyes on them, and not have those eyes based on affirmation currancies like Likes and Follows, the only thing I can think of is in the fediverse or some other web-adjacent locale. I'd be curious to know what others think.