@benroyce @JonChevreau @mardigroan
Pardon me while i turn and preach to the choir:
Another factor is the "algorithmic timeline." Whether for-profit or not, if you build your community on top of an algorithmic timeline, you are explicitly building a community on top of an opaque censor who determines what speech is amplified and what speech is suppressed.
The mass acceptance of being spoon-fed what to believe is what makes for-profit social media valuable to those seeking control of society.