Love this. People are craving a different social media experience or at least quite a few articulate and imaginative ones do.
But while the failure of the current crop is evident (well not in terms of shareholder value), what should be a "good" replacement is not all that obvious. Even beyond sustainable business model issues, there are so many configurations, platform features, constraints, user incentives etc. There are two general principles I can think of:
* Let a thousand flowers bloom (in a fediverse context) and let evolutionary trial-and-error determine what works
* Source some insights from the surveillance capitalists as they are the ones who have accumulated the largest empirical factbase about what we should definitely avoid 8-)
But while the failure of the current crop is evident (well not in terms of shareholder value), what should be a "good" replacement is not all that obvious. Even beyond sustainable business model issues, there are so many configurations, platform features, constraints, user incentives etc. There are two general principles I can think of:
* Let a thousand flowers bloom (in a fediverse context) and let evolutionary trial-and-error determine what works
* Source some insights from the surveillance capitalists as they are the ones who have accumulated the largest empirical factbase about what we should definitely avoid 8-)