In my opinion, the root problem at the core is allowing people to act like people without having to deal with the consequences of their behavior. With the text games (and Minecraft servers, or any other game server) the eventual consequence was an empty server nobody cares about. Unfortunately, it left lots of lost hopes and dreams as well as people's time along the way.
If you don't allow mob rule, you will either have insularity or some form of elitism that governs. Getting rid of all the people on the social media platform solves the problem. It creates a new problem, a useless "social" media platform, but you can't have everything.
I do have short term hope for the UFoI pact, so long as it recognizes the limitations of asking people to not act like people. It's a start, anyway.
