I agree. What I keep coming back to, though, is that these platforms do have more eyeballs on them. So the irony of it is that if that's where the attention is, that's where you need to be, but only in order to raise awareness.

Unfortunately, like you said, building a network of followers on these platforms ironically makes these platforms more powerful.

I think about this when it comes to YouTube channels as well. Think about privacy channels. There's lots of good/useful content on there, but I don't wanna have to follow that person on YouTube. And I don't wanna have to make a Google account to comment or otherwise engage with that person/channel. Yet, YouTube is too large of a distribution platform to ignore. So I don't blame them for being on there. Do I like it? Course not. But I can understand the (perceived?) necessity of it.

The goal is to funnel off these proprietary/exploitative walled ecosystems.