Maybe the Amish people are on to something?
I like the decentralization path. So many mainstream social media companies seem to feature/promote cartels of influencers and bury others. We must protect our social environment from psychological warfare and programming, regardless of which side or what their end goals and agendas are.
And, yes, the surveillance state is a huge problem. It's not hard to imagine that, at some point, the bad actors start inserting damning evidence into a target's communications stream to build/augment a case against them to take them down.