I just assume that anything owned by a tech corporation is actively spying on me with anything they got. And I think it is reasonable to assume so, specially when they have weird stuff in the EULA(as I believe discord has). So yeah twitter reddit discord, android, windows what have you, are probably gathering as much data as they can and selling it for as much as they can get.

The similarities with socialism has to do with what I believe that they come from the same source, the oppression of capitalism, that leads them to feel, accurately that there is something really wrong, but they have the necessary cognitive dissonance to feel the issues of capitalism but also love the system, therefore the answers communists give must be worng, so they need to fabricate a fantastic and flexible explanation that allows them to stay right wing and enraged, fascism serves a similar purpose to the upkeep of the system

Most certainly, places like this where we are are still extremely niche, but nonetheless vital parts of the resistance. Since social media as you said is in the pocket of big capital, being so the algorithm is tailored to quell the feeling of revolt(for more on that see Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism, or check this out https://yewtu.be/watch?v=f62SRvGCPQo it has English subtitles, it’s a magnificent fellow Brazilian comrade) while setting a looping trap of distraction, so people feel like they are fighting the system promoting and liking the people who look like are doing something, while just being a colorful distraction, the way forward is organization, form/join cooperative groups, communist parties or any gathering of people debating openly this Ideas, specially, if at all possible, an in personal organization group, so there can be real action, strikes protests and factual resistance, or else they will roll us over, the word of order is to UNITE!

I certainly don’t know all the factors but I can be sure in the fact that the blockade of Russia, the US vs China trade wars (Which the US kindly dragged all his allies into) are certainly part of the issue, the fact that the dollar is on the road to collapsing is could be another factor. And times of crisis the proletariat gets angry and the system tries to diverge this anger towards facism (today somewhat embodied in the Ukraine war) in order to prevent a socialist revolution, which is something that in this moments is essential that is made the focus of the masses. Proletariat of the world, UNITE!