I'd encourage the author to look into the difference between mindfulness and intention. From reading their approach, it seems like they are really encouraging people to use the platforms intentionally. From my experience, mindfulness is correlated more closely with awareness than it is intention.

I'm recently restarting an approach to social media and I'm looking at it with fresh eyes. One thing that I wish more of us would agree on would be to strongly prefer platforms that are friendly to privacy, or at least anonymity. Starting new accounts, I was surprised to find the level of intrusion required to get, for example, a new Twitter account up and running. Contrast that with a new HN account, which requires nothing but a username and password.

Occasionally going through the onboarding steps for these platforms can be a real eye-opener on how the platforms have changed.

Not sure why this was killed. I think the point about mindfulness and intention is valid under the modern lens of "mindfulness" (as opposed to the older and more general concept of "be mindful of..."), which is closer to meditation and being present.

I also agree that there is a value to anonymous platforms that is underrepresented in today's landscape. Anonymous like 4chan or Secret, not even pseudonymous (as it turns out, I had an idea for such an experimental discussion platform...). I don't think they need to supplant identity-based platforms per sé but fill another niche.