I like having better control over what content people can push at me. An issue on other platforms is they all want to force things on me – things that they make money from, or things they think will annoy me (to keep me “engaged”). This makes them really annoying for me to use, and generally results in me giving up on the idea of sharing the things I study with others, and maybe also helping people with their projects.
I’m really mostly here to share science and engineering stuff, and maybe help other immigrants to Vietnam (I mean, there will probably be another one eventually…).
So really, I don’t think it’s a problem. I’m already painfully aware of the various weird things people think about me in daily life (yay, being an immigrant!). I don’t need that to define every single thing I do. Sometimes I just want to log on and post some nice words about optimizing assembly language, without having to deal with a bunch of strange and often inappropriate requests from strangers.