I mean, I don’t know where you’d draw the hard line in terms of user count, but it’s definitely somewhere before half of the human race.
Once that many people use your products I would argue there is a moral imperative to do right by those people. Yes, at that scale, people other than the original builder/owner do have the right to make demands.
If the human race finally ever takes such an outward interest in software, there's plenty of open source and decentralized ways they can use to link up.
Facebook is only a public utility as long as we allow it to be.
There's onus on them because of that — but also on us.
That's why things like www.touchbase.id exist - to make it easier to find the online presence of someone that THEY want to share - so you're not stuck defaulting to the big platforms, or ignorant to the other places they're using.
> Facebook is only a public utility as long as we allow it to be.
Facebook won't take opposition lying down. Consider their free internet offerings in some countries. How is open source going to compete with that? And what service will you use to organize a movement large enough to upend Facebook? Twitter? Mastodon?
Once that many people use your products I would argue there is a moral imperative to do right by those people. Yes, at that scale, people other than the original builder/owner do have the right to make demands.