> Well you can also just stop using these products

True. But there is a social cost, for now

In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is

I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to reconstitute it, and now I pay the price

But the price gets less as time goes by as Meta killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Their greed and carelessness is making the service less valuable or useful

This (ban Virgina Wolf FFS) is another example. If you cannot advertise what you are doing as part of your community, then what is the point?

Why be part of a service that no longer links people without fear or favour (Facebook of fifteen years ago) but solely exists to market at you?