I like the idea of falling miserably over and over again.
The technical solutions exist. We need to do better at figuring out how to beat the power of the business model.
The hundreds of billions of dollars that the current lock-in of corporate social media brings in is a powerful tool that companies use to keep better solutions inaccessible to most people.
The other tool they use is the massive use of dark patterns and armies of phds whose only purpose is to keep you hooked onto the product they offer. Like a super drug whose mechanisms can be tailored at an individual level to maximize addiction.
The social media conglomerates would have been able to figure it out instead of building their own proprietary systems for this stuff, if they had wanted to. But, well, they didn't want to.
If it were so easy, we would see it already - there’s sufficient demand for this kind of solution. Engineers and STEM graduates in general often fail to understand that technology isn’t always the main constraint. There are harder problems in the world to solve, that actually define the experience. It’s people, it’s regulations and liabilities, it’s financial planning and outcomes etc etc. There exists a technology for many wonderful things, yet we don’t see them and it is not corporations to blame.