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You don't need a better replacement. People just need something that keeps them in the app longer, these sort of "dark patterns" that are often mentioned. The app can be total shit, as long as it manages to engage users. That's why something like Lemmy or Mastodon is not succeeding with the general population because they explicitly have been made not to utilise such things.
By "better", I don't necessarily mean of higher quality. Those dark patterns are often features from the point of view of the average user. Without them, they can feel lost, and they spurned their platforms of choice until they had them.