I have, over and over and over, explained this.
The choice is 1) generate revenue while also decrying the situation we and other independent publishers find themselves in, or 2) cease to exist. It’s no more “weird” than a franchisee complaining about policies forced upon it by a parent company, sportsball players complaining about policies forced upon them by teams/leagues/unions, or other situations where a captive member nonetheless takes issue with the status quo.
The “weird” idea, to me, is this notion that “if you use something, it’s wrong to complain about it”. Are you going to stop using electricity because your provider generates electricity with coal? No? Well you can 1) complain about it, 2) promote alternatives, and 3) prepare yourself to switch to alternatives if they become available.
Facebook, Twitter, etc are the coal plants of social media. We need what they have to survive, but you better believe we’re going to keep pointing out their shortcomings in the hope that we can help generate the inertia needed for change to happen, while simultaneously embracing new, better platforms (the solar and wind farms of social media, as it were), as soon as they develop and, more importantly, provide tools to help us integrate with to generate traffic.
