Academia

There was a clear sense that the social media landscape is changing and fragmenting – the age of very large platforms that present a ‘global timeline’ to millions or billions of users is ending, and it is not clear what will replace them. Our analysis suggests the eventual emergence of some kind of aggregator, which would pull together disparate social feeds on behalf of a user. If it happens, this aggregator is likely to be built around a new set of interface paradigms and assumptions about user needs, and unlikely to appear for at least a few years.

I think this report was begun a little while before reddit's enshittification and we are currently using the aggregator they're talking about (Lemmy + PixelFed + Mastodon, etc.). Also, Lemmy had existed sometime before reddit's poopoo-bambam, but I'm not sure for how long. A bit of an oversight, but I suppose it was rather obscure beforehand.