“Free Republic is social media. Should we all leave FR?”
Clearly not. Don’t nit pick.
And FR is a user-contributed news aggregator. Way back when, called a “Forum”. Pre-dates all this other non-sense.
A social media platform such as FB has the advantage of letting your friends know what is up. Sort of like putting out a Amber alert - I send it out to my friends - 108 of them. Maybe 25 share it. And maybe 25 friends of each of those 25 share it, and so on. The word gets around.
Also like FB, if you do not like what is going on here, you can ignore it.