It's wild how social media outside of the fediverse has deteriorated. You have followers, but if your post doesn't please some opaque algorithm, they'll never see what you post. You have to avoid certain words to please the algorithm. If you refresh the page good luck finding the same posts again. And people put up with it.
The Washington Post · Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts
Quark Maker @QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
@Gargron Well, as Willie Sutton famously said when asked why he robbed banks, "That's where the money is."
Twitter, Instagram, etc., have really become influencer platforms. Facebook, too, though to a slightly lesser degree. Jack Dorsey's new Blue Sky (or whatever he's calling it) could become that as well.
The face of what social media is has changed since the '00s; for the time being, I'd rather be here on Mastodon.