Appreciate the realisation but this really is repeated ad nauseum and is not an original thought in the slightest

a thought/concept doesn't need to be original to a wider group and can still be profound for the individual. see "just about any subject".

:) That goes for television as well.

Ad-supported TV. Other models exist: BBC, PBS, HBO, etc.

This is true, unless you pay for the social network, or it's p2p.

It's not purposefully evil or inherently wrong, just an inevitable consequence of the business models involved in free-to-use social networks.

I'm trying to explore whether a paid social network could be a workable model with https://postbelt.com

Please check it out :-)

thats true, but they also provide lots of useful features to users.