> It would require every large social media company to actively support competitors that are cloning their website, require them to manage the database for thos

> It would require every large social media company to actively support competitors that are cloning their website, require them to manage the database for those competitors, and do it at no cost. Well...yes. That seems like the point, to me. Having data siloed by massive megacorporations who abuse that data to generate ludicrous levels of quarterly profit does not benefit us as a society. I do not believe that any particular business model deserves a guarantee that it be allowed to continue in perpetuity. What this would do is force social media services to compete on features and user-friendliness, rather than just network effects, dopamine farming, and lock-in. It would lower the barriers to entry for competitors in the social media market, and lower the barriers to exit for social media users who want to move from one network to another.