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Future of social media in 5/10 years from now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by It0m@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] peter@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Same as it currently is. Maybe some will fade to irrelevance but a new company promising to be everything the other one wasn't for free will appear and the cycle will continue. The focus will go away from user choice and further towards algorithm driven short form content. I could totally see an app that just shows you a 3 second video, then another, then another continuously until you close the app. No input required as the engagement is tracked through the camera.