[tarotuser]

As much as I dislike Stallman's non-tech opinions and actions, I think his proprietary social media handling policy is probably the best:

https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html

Assuming you must use proprietary solutions to reach your people, RMS's solution is to use the other platforms to convert to your open platform. Maybe that won't work for everyone, but at least it allows usage of cockroach motel systems to your open one.

[bombcar]

This is elaborated as POSSE in some places: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

[BlueTemplar]

Hmm, I don't know, social media is really good at addicting you, speaking from experience, even owning an account that you don't intend to use is "dangerous", and this seems much worse.

(At least Stallman's advice is targeted at organizations, where the official nature of communications might stop the person doing the job getting in the engagement trap...)

[tarotuser]

True, but if you're running a website like that where you pull people from, then you should also do some automation work via NodeRed to automate those social media flows.

Its hard to be suckered into a social media site if you never go there. Then again, HN is also a social media site too.

[BlueTemplar]

Oh yeah, and can be very addictive and a waste of time too, though thankfully it's very light on the "social" part...