<i>Perhaps the most significant problem of many that I have seen regarding my own participation in social media is that none of the large platforms seem to want me. In most cases, this is because I insist on posting links to articles on the Cheapskate's Guide.</i><p>you just answered your own problem.<p>Anyone can create their own social media site, but good luck creating the users, too.
> My involvement started as a way of publicizing the Cheapskate's Guide.<p>Well, sir, there's your problem right there. No social media site likes to have advertisers externalize the advertisers' costs to the social media site. Users don't like to see ads, they'll maybe tolerate ads that are relevant, but ads that the advertiser thinks are relevant, and the users don't? Well, those draw complaints.<p>Does Reddit "shadow ban" anyone? I thought that the phrase "shadow ban" was just the Qanon computer illiterates complaining about how everyone ignored their crazy rantings.