Hi, I would be interested in people’s opinion on the future of social media. Would activitypub ever become mainstream among “normies” that lack technical literacy?
How would monetisation work on a decentralized platform? Would the creator be limited with merchandise and promotions without ads?
Big tech walled gardens have made the internet worse. The only way you can find something on google is by appending the term “reddit” at the end of the search query. To many AI generated SEO clickbait wordpress pages.
All of the good content is locked behind a login screen.
One thing to consider is AI is going to make getting set up and using things like activitypub much easier - especially as it’ll be making it much easier for Devs and users to customise tools to basically break out of the social media boxes, your ai will be checking your social media accounts on a range of platforms and keeping upto date with where creators you like are posting so it’ll show you interesting stuff no matter what platform it comes from.
I think by being the most open and flexible we’ll see a lot of growth and development here