[brucethemoose2]

> Proper moderation

I would point to oldschool forums (and HN!), where the communities were just large enough to moderate themselves and stop nasty off topic junk like that from appearing.

One problem is modern social media has (mostly) yanked this self-moderation power from users. And, as you said, they are too big and too cheap to hire enough mods on payroll to replace them.

Another, that I have, is that they make money from the drug dealer posts! If Facebook has to leave it up, OK, but they sure as heck shouldn't display ads or collect metrics. That should be a far more zealous check.

[MostlyStable]

Yeah I really think basically all the moderation problems go away (from my very particular perspective of what the problems are and why they are problems) if you at least give users the option of fully controlling what they see (i.e only posts from users they have specifically followed etc.). But that option results in lower "engagement" and time-on-site, so social media companies will probably never go back to providing it.