>But Facebook, Google, and Reddit have had decades to sort this out on their own

It was solved. Dont collect information.

The problem is making shitty psychotic apps, not determining who can use them.

I would much rather they cut meta into pieces and sold them off as scraps, than just scarfing up the PID of the users to make arbitrary determinations about who can have what brainrot.

It was solved for you.

There are more people than just you (and other tech literate folk) online.

I would also rather meta be cut an sold of as scraps. This is sadly not the question being framed.

I’ve dedicated a portion of my life volunteering to moderate content in communities. It is an unmitigated shit show. The status quo is great for firms and corrosive for society.

If theres a takeaway from this sub thread, is why “meta being broken up and sold for scraps” not being raised as a question in the first place.

Is it another case of too big to fail?