I think social media as we know it today is already at the end of the road. Our data has been obtained to make generative AI products and now we are entering a new phase of the internet. The social media we have has already been poisoned by assholes trying to make everyone addicted for money, or victims of non-kinetic warfare.
There is going to be way to many self-managing sock puppets all with an agenda. Automated psyops agents left to their devices, all talking to each other and you.
That’s not to say there won’t be sociable media, it’s just that regardless of how federated anything is we are all still going to constantly be in contact with AI.
the next big social media platform will be the one that can guarantee the most authentic human connections.
Until we get to that point, we will have what we have not and watch it get worse as smaller federated instances pop up that become selective or invite only.
Not much different then private hidden services