I see many startups claiming, and in fact starting their existence with the very declaration or on the pretext, that “We are not like X. We are not going anywhe

I see many startups claiming, and in fact starting their existence with the very declaration or on the pretext, that “We are not like X. We are not going anywhere. We are not for sale” et cetera, I am pretty sure most of those founders would have been spending sleepless nights giddy fantasising about the moment when X acquires them. So now any social network kind of service, which isn’t legally non-profit and open source and preferably federated, doesn’t get any cookie from me including the ones like LetterBoxd and StoryGraph. But the problem is federated services, where you have to “choose” an instance among other frictions and all, are kinda doomed to fail. So I just use the established ones until they are unusable and keep my data regularly exported if it’s worth exporting, that is. It’s just sad.