So what’s wrong with open source social network ? They don’t have the issue mentioned, because they don’t have investor there is no need to optimize kpi and when it’s optimized the infrastructure cost can be minimized a lot.

See mastodon for instance.

Yet it doesn’t catch up in popularity, seems like people do prefer the traditional Facebook, twitter and instagram.

You can only show a donkey where water is but you can’t force it to drink.