Over time I have posted links on posts on facebook. Get lots of visitors to the forums, but few visitors from there joining up.

When one is addicted to crack cocaine, a fine cigar, or a great whiskey or cognac will no longer satisfy ...

True also the ownership and management of facebook is vile. Increasingly censorship and mind control will occur with legitimate free speech more and more being considered "thought control". Becoming firmer another organ of the fake news networks.

So a good reason for multi platform systems. On mainstream platforms, subject to thought control and censorship, to lesser ones, and of course the core being firmly under our own control.

One defect in multi platform posts is follow-up on the subsidiary platforms is too time consuming and too much work. So will be little 'management'. But if one chooses a 5 second attention span platform, that is what one gets ...

Facebook does give access to a varied group and some industry people not or only occasionally directly available here on NE.

So multi platform will work. As long as all the good guys keep staying on the forums!