>>4427
There's still web3...
What is it that you would want out of the Internet? Information, entertainment, connection. I don't know what else there is besides variations on those with varying interactivity. There was initial growth in the Internet as more and more people began to spend time in areas that overlapped with others. What happens is that there becomes a point where user interactions are so constant there is no down time. The growth continues but cycles form based on common usage. Before algorithms people either manually uploaded at certain times or posted with scheduling. Boards would be busy and there would be lulls. It's still like this, in a way, but people can now recognize bots replacing actual people. The balance of original content, now, is also outnumbered compared to acknowledgement interaction or passive interaction. Most people consume rather than create. But that idea itself wasn't as generally accepted, or as normalized, as it is today. It's easier to be passive, it's just something different being wholly 'new' for anyone. But the Internet isn't new. And most social media has taken over the role of scheduling for everyone, as consumer, controlling the interaction further.
So now there's extremes of small areas with constant newbies, or closed communities for lifers, to an extent, along with the dieing public squares of the interne while the most changes arise from forms of control and censorship. There is nothing to migrate to. We already have the best options with the most people. But, the problem is, that we already have the best options with the most people.
In some ways this is good if you want small communities, but everything comes back to platform choice, which doesn't necessarily relate to the original common interest that brings people together, that is not platform preference. Most hobbies that are not technology based have users that don't 'have the time' or 'care to' learn a new social platform to interact with their interest. Then if the platform is the connecting factor itself, the actual interests never find that larger lively community as each user is basically blogging to the void, or their small community, only connected because of shared interest in platform.
The places that grew on the early internet were from people that had interests in technology as well as the original hobby. The hobby communities grew around the places these people built who had either a job or second hobby in technology, like web design. But that's what social media monetized on. Then we get groups, or subdivisions on the platform, then apps, but also the 'anything goes' public areas for users, like a personal page. But that's like sms colors, in groups rather than open.
Theres a functional split between Facebook and Tumblr, in organization. There is/was the functional split in organization between tiktok and vine. Images. Gifs. Text. (Twitter) Short. Long. Video. Basically youtube is its own thing, and now it's the history that's important which can't be replaced. The only kind of migrations that seem to happen are from groups that feel the need to create their own space, whether isolationist or whatnot, but with political divide in society, there is nothing that can really overtake that commonality. It really sucks. And now we're building a stigma to social media use in general for large parts of the public so it's just another division. The usage itself, or the actual content creation, which shouldn't even be 'Content Creation,' it should just be normal usage.
It's really difficult to find a group of even 30 people that regularly participate in something, that either hasn't been established, or will last for over a year. That 30 used to be at least in the low thousands. But a lot of people have watched those numbers change.