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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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@pluralistic we'll watch the next big protest never happen due to lack of common communication channels. We'll think that a lot of people don't care. That's why dictators and wannabes happily invested in the Twitter black hole purchase. Fragmentation is the goal. What's the next best thing to the assumed benevolent dictator who owns and may sell the place we (a much much larger we) meet and organize?
Dr. King did it without social media and with the media of the time fully against him. So we need to go back and re-learn the lessons from the civil rights movement.