The other edge of the sword: it's now virtually impossible to run your own mail server. POP3, IMAP etc are all open protocols used as the base for email (a common analogy for the fediverse as it too is federated). Then Big Tech came up with DKIM, DMARC, SPF, etc to save us from spam1 when in fact it's just a fancy form of embrace-extend-extinguish.
The same can happen to the fediverse.
1 if it was weakening of cryptografy it'd be think of the children
A better route: have a surcharge attached to a product at sale time associated with the cost of a product that is improperly-disposed-of, then provide customers a rebate when they dispose of it if they recycle it.
That used to be the norm for glass bottles, now everything's plastic.
Reduce, Reuse... only then Recycle.
How about penalizing companies for imposing software caps? As long as the hardware is capable, i should be able to continue to use it and upgrade the software.
At the very least unlock the hardware once it's out of warranty.
They're all external factors. Music and videogames have been (wrongly, imo) blamed in the past. Media, especially nowadays, is probably more "blameable" than music and games, but i still think it's bs to use external factors as an excuse to justify mass shootings.
Content creators should be held responsible for their content.
Platforms are mere distributors, in general terms, otherwise you're blaming the messenger.
Specific to social media (and television) yes, they bank on hate, it's known - so don't use them or do so with that ever dwindling human quality called critical thinking. Wanting to hold them accountable for murder is just dismissing the real underlying issues, like unsupervised impressionable people watching content, easy access to guns, human nature itself, societal issues...
Therapist-hoping, eh?