There are no effective alternatives. Facebook, YouTube, Google, etc. are ‘public’ forums. You can go to GAB or some other porn supporting/welcoming site, but you have an audience of 0.000001 or less compared to Facebook. It is not the same, not even close. If you want to talk with and converse with the public, it is currently on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. And for search results, it is Google. Wish for it to be different all you want, but facts are facts.
“Wish for it to be different all you want, but facts are facts.”
The facts are that these companies now have idiots on the right looking to fuse a new love of soft nationalization with a completely bizarre idea of what “public” means in a absurd attempt to wrestle control of the operations of private services in the name of your apparently inalienable right to tweet, reblog, or otherwise engage in running flame wars online.
And you are willing to give these damn companies the protection and resources of the state to do that, instead of supporting alternatives and helping to push these companies out of prominence.
Like what will happen if Twitter goes out of business while it is considered an “essential utility”?