There is a tendency of progressives to reject solutions that are not perfect. A solution is proposed, then it is questioned, and if it has some flaw, then it is dropped. The perversion is that the original problem is allowed to fester.
For example, there is no controversy among progressives that billionaire-controlled social media is a source of disinformation and conspiracy theories, and election interference by foreign adversaries which impede democracy from functioning in a healthy way. Yet, when faced with less dangerous alternatives, such a decentralised social media, progressives fault it for not having enough users. No social media platform had enough users at its beginning. To reject decentralised social media on this basis is simply to stoke a self-fulfilling prophesy. It also implies that the internal collapse of Western civilisation is somehow preferable to lower social media reach.
