> social media companies are exceptionally good at figuring out how to show them more of the content they want We have no way of knowing if that’s true. Social

> social media companies are exceptionally good at figuring out how to show them more of the content they want We have no way of knowing if that’s true. Social media companies show users what keeps them most profitably engaged with the site, and rely on the casual fallacy that engagement represents preference. Decentralized, open networks do promise choice in a way that centralized corporate networks are unable to secure. That was as true for the future of Truth Social as it was for all the existing corporate networks. Whether today’s most promising protocols for decentralized, open networks are going to be adequate and whether network effects are cohere on them is another matter. Mozilla seems more hopeful than myself.