@adders @Ron @Bruce This is a big issue full of difficult knots of nuance. So for now, I'll say one way I think about this from the idea of first principles:

What is the problem? I do not believe the most pressing issue is that people use Facebook, or even that they only use Facebook for groups or whatever. Rather, that people get lured into the manipulated feed and alter their viewpoints about the world as a result of that activity.

I believe this is the starting point and everything else stems from that problem. When I look at people who are attempting to make alternatives to Facebook, I try to work out if they are also looking at the problems in differeny ways since the monolithic nature of the platform requires a number of different solutions from different types of people.

There is so much more I could say right now but I am instead going to spend a lot of my newly engineered focused time on better researching these issues, working on TIL (related: the motivation for which is to help contribute to using a potential escape route from silos); and then probably blogging about these issues from a place where I am better informed and likely to hold valuable experience due to the increasing pace of changes in my family life.