An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…
This is not really a big worry imo. In the “golden age” of the internet, alot of people were not on it. Everything slowly degrades with added population. It’s not even just a social media problem. Small companies are agile but as they grow to be giants, they die off. This is just the normal lifecycle of pretty much anything involving large groups of people. I think people will always find a way to form communities and move from platform to platform as neccessary. The thing about maintaining a special group is that you don’t neccessarily want it to be super accessible