From my diary, 31st May 2021:
I'm really, seriously, deeply considering stopping my use of LinkedIn and Twitter.
For one, I refuse to let my personhood and personality be reduced to a few centimetres on an electronic screen, centimetres that bored people scroll past with their smartphones.
And second, the data I supply to the above-named websites (that is, Twitter and LinkedIn) seem to be under the ownership of their parent companies, rather than me. I am just a tiny bit uncomfortable with that. Are LinkedIn and Twitter paying me money to receive my data? They have the benefit of my data, so why shouldn't I be paid for it? Instead, I get bombarded with advertisements while using their services. It seems to me I am getting exploited. (They are taking and capturing my (limited) attention, and selling it to companies (who advertise through them); that's what they are doing).
And if I want to find interesting people, why don't I read the so-called “gemlogs” of the users of Gemini instead? (Gemini being the Small Internet, not Gemini the cryptocurrency service).