Is there anything like old twitter out there? Twitter with an open API during the Arab Spring was kind of an amazing time. I guess really it's all about TikTok at this point for that sort of thing.
What's the alternative to Facebook? ....uhhhh, I dunno, is MySpace still around?
What's the alternative to Instagram? ....maybe TikTok? but that's just for videos
What's the alternative to TikTok? ....YouTube, I guess?
And round and round it goes.
Yes; most people will only have heard of the big behemoth players in the social media field. Triply so for non-technical people.
What that means is we who are technical need to start exploring alternatives and spreading the word about them. Not that we just need to shrug and accept that we will be playing in monopolists' sandboxes for the rest of our lives.
Okay, fuck this.