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Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us *wish* we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis
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and that anti-lock-in measures like interoperability can address it
Interesting point, only that the evolution of friendica and hubzilla addons, have proven again and again that this is not true and no choice. When ever the land lords see the threat, measure the threat, they'll lock your option out, change the API, disrupt the process, burn down the bridge you started to build for some time and you are back to square one. They even did that with XMPP.
Interoperability is no choice because it's threat to their basic business model.
And when ever you (we) manage to create the option, they will tear it down once it's about to flourish. And the time we invested with the restricted resources we have will just be lost. That happened with fb connectors, twitter API's and so on. And it will happen again and again because it's logic, it makes sense for them and their share holders.
This is so obvious, it's mind blowing that you people don't get that.
Like you never understood the system you live in.