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  • Because they have all the customers.

    If you don’t like the rate the current major platforms give, you could choose to use one of the many alternatives that (presumably) exist.

    And if they really don’t, I could build you one in a couple of weekends with all the open source resources and federation protocols available today.

    But none of that matters because all the paying customers are on those major platforms. And until you convince users to move off those platforms, you’re basically their bitch. They’ll pay you whatever they happen to feel like paying you.