- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
Someone else mentioned a problem with the donation model, which is that large popular instances will likely have an overabundance of funding while less popular ones won’t and will eventually shut down.
Over time this pushes towards a small number of large instances, defeating the purpose of federated social media.
A foundation that distributes funding across a sector of instances may help, but comes with it’s own problems 🤔