> Social media is a not a public square where people can plant their soapbox
Except there isn't really an alternative to Twitter - they have monopolised that "short catchy text stream" market. Other services, like Gab, exist - but when services like Cloudflare readily pull support for less mainstream alternatives, its hard to say that if you don't like Twitter you can go somewhere else.
For better or worse, Facebook and Twitter consumed blogs, and there are no real alternatives.
Except there isn't really an alternative to Twitter - they have monopolised that "short catchy text stream" market. Other services, like Gab, exist - but when services like Cloudflare readily pull support for less mainstream alternatives, its hard to say that if you don't like Twitter you can go somewhere else.
For better or worse, Facebook and Twitter consumed blogs, and there are no real alternatives.