at first I thought this was a post talking about spacehey which is cool but I don't think I'd want to use another social media run by a big tech company.

Can't compete with that stuff

you forgot "Jerking us around"

the more we keep pushing back the more we can try and make them obsolete!

I can't believe people still use chrome I can't stand ads or not being able to play videos in the background.

I use MC because the network is finally being built out in my area and I can actually successfully send messages over MC. I do wish there were better open sourced companion apps for MC though.