[mandmandam]

It's not inevitable though.

Emails, torrents, Mastodon, VLC, Blender, Linux - They're all either solid, or even getting better over time.

Why? Because the capital class were explicitly denied, by design or by principle.

Like with healthcare, transport, post services, housing, and much else, there's simply areas where the public good is too important to give the profit motive too strong a foothold. I believe social media is one of those areas.