I take it that you don't live under a rock and are aware of the fact that Twitter users are once again platform hopping due to a displeasure with major changes to the site. Changes to blocking functionality, and even more controversially the inability to opt out of sharing user posts and uploads with <insert Large Language Model literally nobody asked for here>. It's annoying, it's sleazy, or in other words typical big tech corpo behavior, especially during a gold rush. I've honestly grown numb to it at this point. Seeing the same thing happen again and again is not something one can or should stress over for, there's more to life than this silly shit, it's simply not dying young for. The best thing you can do is simply not feed them your data.
I've already come to terms with despising the very existence of social networking sites for several reasons, this one can probably be added to that pile. Those reasons were a pretty big motivator for investing my time and energy into LainNet and it's surrounding infrastructure though, and I genuinely couldn't be happier with that decision. Self-hosting services is not only fun but is an excellent learning experience, and the means to do so are so cheap now that there's no reason not to do it. Most of the early Web was like this, after all. People got their hands dirty and set up web servers, wrote their own hypertext documents, installed and even wrote CGI scripts for dynamic pages, commonly ones like the LainNet bulletin board. All of this factored into the chaotic, but distinctly personal age of the Web. A unique experience at every corner, and in the vast majority of cases driven by passion, excitement, and even a love for the booming technologies.
Fast forward to today and the Web has become completely unrecognizable to how it once was. If there's any one word that best describes it at a surface level, it's consolidated. No longer is it the norm to "surf" the Web for various and highly distinct sites, now we are all expected to visit a handful where millions and millions of people come to upload all sorts of fluff. Do note that you may upload such fluff with all sorts of vague restrictions, unstable terms of use, legal headaches, and with very little in terms of flexibility. For crying out loud, you can't even stylize your profile pages anymore. It's not about the personal anymore, it's about the collective.
"But hold on", you might say, "people absolutely still develop personal sites to their tastes!". Sure, but take a good look at what those sites actually contain in most cases these days. A few paragraphs of autobiography, and a whole bunch of links to those very same consolidated platforms.
It's all in the numbers: subscribers, followers, patrons/donators, you name it. That's what people stick to these big platforms for: Having all the eyes in the world on them, with an added potential for profit and fame, brought by that very same consolidation. If you think it's just the corpos that got greedy thanks to this, you're blinding yourself. More and more have individual users on these sites become money and attention hungry.