It’s not that I don’t bother with mainstream social media, it’s that I no longer have accounts with them and that most of my personal information on accounts with services like YouTube or Discord are fake names and addresses, sometimes even fake phone numbers.

I haven’t looked back at Reddit since the API changes, stopped using StackOver when they started using AI.

Not really, no. Social Medias can and will exist at any scale, some more or less harmful than others. For example, even Lemmy is filled with people spreading propaganda for foreign dictatorships.

We should take the good with the bad and takes steps to protect our own rights and privacy while helping others do the same. Just as people did during the dawn of the internet, when scams we easily recognize today were unknown dangers before.