You make a good point.

Hell yeah, comrade!

Or, if you decide you MUST use corporate social media, put it behind a secure web browser and isolate your use to only social media.

I can’t be sure it works 100%. I can just hope Brave and Google have competing interests for me.

But best to stop patronizing those platforms as best you can.

What if anything do you do to try to mitigate it?

You make a really good point here. However, is that same anti-indexed nature a boon in the era of Ai site scraping.

It definitely let people create insulated pockets. Is there a chat app that doesn’t do that? Telegram?

This is unironically on reddit right now. People lamenting a place like Lemmy doesn’t exist.

I’m less worried about Discord, honestly.