[indigochill]

HN is a specialty forum. Facebook in some cases is where everyday life is negotiated. In Iceland, for instance, all the unofficial rent/"garage sale" sort of economy lives on Facebook as far as I'm aware. It's not quite WeChat levels (you could still rent through official channels and buy stuff from retailers instead of other individuals), but it's uncomfortably close.

Like HN bans, Facebook/Google bans wouldn't really be too much of a problem if they weren't _the_ platform in their respective domains. As much as I advocate for alternative platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube, them being a viable alternative is a future I hope to see, not the present reality.