How to fix rogue social media platforms – David P. Reed

My take-away was another argument for imposed interoperability. More power to that.

But this closing paragraph struck me as a frustration the author really wanted to get out there, and it has some punch;

  "Stalin failed to create Soviet Science by applying Marxist
   dialectic (a flawed approach to epistemic construction), even
   though he tried hard. Science was too robust to be dialecticized,
   because scientists were better served by the non-dialectic system."

Maybe, one day we will look back at these barren years of "social media" and say "Zuckerberg and Musk failed to build the Soviet Internet because people were better served by the non-dialectic system". Whatever this "non-dialectic system" is that emerges, we must still ask, "at what cost?"