There have been countless attempts by new platforms to take over Facebook, Twitter, etc, but they always fail because 90% of users are so glued to what they already know. They don't want to join a network that all their contacts aren't already on. Additionally, a good portion of said users also don't mind ads or privacy invasion, so those aspects of new platforms only ever seem to appeal to users who know a thing or two about infosec.
For what it's worth, I'm no longer a Twitter user, but when I was I'd go through my activity each month or so and delete the majority of my tweets, retweets, and likes. Sure, they're still stored server-side, but it just reminds me how much I wish a platform could exist with little to no retention, like you said. Maybe a (transparent) purging of data regularly? Way too much to ask for, but it's a novel thought.
There's always space.
There have been countless attempts by new platforms to take over Facebook, Twitter, etc, but they always fail because 90% of users are so glued to what they already know. They don't want to join a network that all their contacts aren't already on. Additionally, a good portion of said users also don't mind ads or privacy invasion, so those aspects of new platforms only ever seem to appeal to users who know a thing or two about infosec.
For what it's worth, I'm no longer a Twitter user, but when I was I'd go through my activity each month or so and delete the majority of my tweets, retweets, and likes. Sure, they're still stored server-side, but it just reminds me how much I wish a platform could exist with little to no retention, like you said. Maybe a (transparent) purging of data regularly? Way too much to ask for, but it's a novel thought.