- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
It doesn’t seem like an issue yet, but I’m interested to see how the fediverse combats the inevitable GPT spam it’ll start receiving as it grows and misinformation/advertising becomes more attractive on these platforms. It’s not an easy problem to solve (though handling it better than Elon should be pretty easy lmao).