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The social media problem is very simple to solve. Ban advertising on social media (from platform or users) and ban usage of user data external to the platform.

When you remove the incentive to engage users, the companies will engage in less abusive practices to push engagement.

I've never seen this proposed, and I'm confused why.

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I think the way you define ads and social media would be important. We would end up getting something like the cookie banners again instead of real change.

- information silos still exist

- social incoherence because silos cannot communicate laterally is still there

- the ads will likely go native to become "content" and more revenue will shift to influencers

Just saying it's not quite that easy, but yes, ad monetization is a great force of evil.

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