Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it.
Also building online communities is incredibly difficult and resource heavy, seeing that we can barely get enough funding for teachers to run their classrooms appropriately would this be the best use of taxpayers money?
Think about why this would be incredibly difficult and resource heavy? The US social media site doesn't have to try and serve video reliably while threading in ads to make a profit. Sure people can try to upload video in plain text and create their own clients to ingest it, like I said "Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it."
It's an infrastructure project, like national highway or the internet.
In the long term, it seems like it has a lot of potential to be a Good Thing but it depends a lot on how it actually plays out.
Having a public competitor to private enterprise only improves things like a properly funded USPS over UPS/FedEx or even banking.
It’s noteworthy to mention that what you are describing is just what one party likes and the other does not.
Simple examples: every public Democratic figure will support pride month and every Republican will support the 2nd Amendment, regardless of what they actually think about the issues. If they don't, their own side will eat them.
I don’t think many Democrats secretly don’t support pride month or many Republicans secretly don’t support the 2nd amendment, but then go on to publicly show support so their side doesn’t attack them.
There's a certain baseline level of affirmation that's sometimes required for it not to be considered that one specifically disagrees with some hot button topic that was brought up. It's what's being spoken against with the sentiment, "Not everything has to be about X."
It's less that one secretly doesn't support X, just that they're talking about Y right now as a separate issue from X. X is important, and may even be related to Y, but Y is what's being discussed. Such an assertion is often met with, "Oh, so you don't support X!?" and that comes off as hostile, regardless of actual intentions.