Meta Surrenders to the Right on Speech

Social media companies are different. For one, there is user choice. I choose not to use Meta or Musk Social. I understand the "utility" aspect of social media for society, though I wonder how much utility it really provides. They also interact with the data to varying degrees.

I think the issue we have is that we are trying to fit them into the existing utility vs publisher boxes when in reality they exist in a space in between these two. They really need to be decomposed and comply with a protocol, something like ATProto. A single social media fabric where users can choose data host, apps, moderation, and algorithmic feeds. A fabric where competition can exist because switching costs have been reduced or removed.