Counter point: HN, Facebook before the timeline, the entire pre-Facebook internet, Reddit before the IPO path.
The giants grew market share and started deploying profitable advertising models. Once a giant gets the profit bug, they stop being stewards.
Open source social media and messaging largely sucks. Either the UI/UX sucks, like Matrix, or the demographics suck, like Bluesky's hyper-polarized audience.
None of this means it's impossible. We've just seen the successful attempts become evil and lots of bad attempts that fail.
The giants grew market share and started deploying profitable advertising models. Once a giant gets the profit bug, they stop being stewards.
Open source social media and messaging largely sucks. Either the UI/UX sucks, like Matrix, or the demographics suck, like Bluesky's hyper-polarized audience.
None of this means it's impossible. We've just seen the successful attempts become evil and lots of bad attempts that fail.