reading this and saying like "it's because you're expecting profit-focused systems to be good to use" in my head after every paragraph
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23672769/social-media-inevitable-death-monetization-growth-hacks
it's not Social Media is Doomed it's more like Capitalism Creates Bad Products. in my humble onion
people are so capitalism brained they will say everything is doomed and not even imagine an alternative... fucked up
[clarification in case it's necessary... what I'm saying here is not "🤓use FOSS/free stuff instead" - what I'm saying is when the FOCUS is profit rather than user experience......................the user experience is bad.
See Cohost as a good & relevant specific example of user experience being the focus, rather than profit, despite not being necessarily "free" ]