Open source does not have billions of dollars to spend on marketing.
We can work together to polish apps/software and use word of mouth. This will help to grow these other options.
Explosive growth is driven by large dollar amounts. Think LinkedIn being included as a shortcut in Windows, or every phone coming with Facefuck pre installed.
Until we can get people away from platforms owned by major corporations we will not be able to shrug off the programs they push on people.
Yes, the enslaved animals who are inconsistently fed and ignored. All those dogs forced to live in apartments without any interaction the entire day while their slavers slave away as slaves themselves.
Just because a few people out there genuinely care and treat their pets correctly does not mean the rest are. This is why PETA exists.
Obviously you have some extremely thick rose colored glasses on.