1. It depends on the time scale. The question is if you can outlive their VC funding.
2. How do you fix the incentives short of fixing capitalism to remove software VCs?
2. How do you fix the incentives short of fixing capitalism to remove software VCs?
2. You don’t need to get rid of VCs, it’s orthogonal.
Just make interoperation/complete API coverage required by law to be available to any user if you have more users than certain amount. It would neuter the lock-in when anyone can make a third-party GUI that has no ads and interoperates with any other social platform (meaning no “all my friends are there” effect).