1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. 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.

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    But then the centralised service becomes a single point of failure. If you attack that one service, all instances lose their funding.

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      I can see that being an issue and a flaw. I think if everybody focuses on a solution, we can surely do something about it.