I’ve only just learned that from another Lemmy poster recently, and had the same reaction, so now you too are cursed with the etymological knowledge and must share it far and wide.

I don’t have an answer, but wanted to point out: a fake grassroots effort is called astroturfing (due to it being fake grass)

Facebook, for all that they were and all that they have become. I don’t use it, won’t use it, but I can’t change others’ behavior, and so its very existence continues to reduce my quality of life. Facebook gave us Facebook, Zuck, and eventually Meta. I do not like them, Sam I Am.

Edit: grammar

Learn the difference between a necessary risk and an unnecessary one, and whenever possible, decide with intent when to deploy the latter.

Other than that, leave things better than you found them. That goes a long way.

Good luck on your journey. I don’t have anything contructive to say to help, but this is certainly a way in which I would fuck up and I hope you find an answer.