I find this disappointing. The world does not need alternative social media. Everything in our society is geared towards "Bigger, Faster, Broader === Better!".

I find this disappointing. The world does not need alternative social media. Everything in our society is geared towards "Bigger, Faster, Broader === Better!". But it has completely ignored humanity and quality. The world needs less social media, full stop. Devoting resources to this is is a waste of time. In my opinion (and I recognize the irony of posting this online) fewer people deserve an audience. Fewer people (and companies) should be given a platform. Fewer hours should be drowned in the cesspools that are online communities. Fewer eyeballs on the internet is what we should be aiming for. The internet, and especially social media, is a great disruptor. A disruptor of community. Sure, it creates fluidity and eases the ability to interact. This is not really a positive, as a whole. Neutral at best. Efforts should instead be focused on fostering actual, face-to-face interactions. Online 'communities' are a disgustingly poor facsimile of interactions in the flesh. I mean, seriously, look what we've sacrificed. All for what? Phones that bombard us with notifications that someone said the content we posted was shit? Ads being shoved down our throats to try to monetize the activity of simply existing? Having the ability to leave racist comments on Youtube while you're taking a shit? I'm an atheist, but I have remarked to my dad that I somewhat mourn both the loss of religious centers and offices. They formed critical venues for actually meeting people, humanizing and understanding them, building relationships and friendships, discussing differences with immediate realization of consequence for ones words/actions. The internet is a fucking disgrace compared to that. Mozilla should build a series of cafes or something, in small-to-medium towns and cities. Foster actual, face-to-face, unscalable human connection. An unrealistic expectation, for sure. But goddamn could the world use some of that these days.