“Social media platforms”? You’re already speaking venture capital language. And have therefore already sucked in their premise.

Community has existed on the internet from the beginning, before the venture capitalists came in to collect your data. And that community in far healthier forms without the narcissistic premise of collecting “followers” and without the hidden bait of “algorithms” to define what you see and what you think. What you have on “social media platforms” is not community. It’s controlled space for commercial profit, on someone’s private website.

It’s not community or the publicly shared commons.

A lot of people didn’t grasp much in civics and social studies class. And society is paying the price for it.

We now have sheep begging to be exploited for profit, while calling it “community”.