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Even deciding to say something in small social media places such as this one involves bracing myself for a potential onslaught of disagreement about something I didn't think about or got wrong or didn't think was as big of a deal as they clearly do. It's part of what made me improve my debating and spelling skills very early in life after visiting early message boards and chat rooms. But there was a limit to the number of people who could yell at you back then. I look around now and feel things have become a bit out of hand.
And save for common sense legislation, the only way to change the way modern social media operates is to make new brands of media that are both more engaging than existing forms and prioritize health over profits. Humanist social media, which might be a myth, to think that you can match the user retention of existing companies without tuning your algorithms to maximize addiction. But possibly, having a healthy relationship with social media and learning positive things from people online can be addictive in its own way. Maybe in a way that can drive user retention even higher than current systems could ever hope to. But they'll never know because making a system that gradually dismantles capitalism doesn't sound profitable. In any case, I think we should try.