I write this, the social era of the internet is in chaos. Twitter has locked tweets behind a login, Instagram is known as a sales front rather than social hub, Reddit has infuriated and driven away the moderators who keep it from descending into , TikTok might get literally banned, and Facebook’s reputation is that it’s where people use their real names and photos to say the cruelest things. Upstarts that aim to replace these sites have been springing up all over, but that’s exactly their problem — no individual has the mass of people or interest
