Okay, why does there need to be progress when it comes to social media? How does that improve lives over time? Most of the new features I see don’t improve anything. They just make things worse. Name the last new Reddit feature that actually made Reddit better. When was it?
And that’s pretty much what this article is about: Social media could do with some real improvements, but all the big companies come up with are new money-making schemes.
The Fediverse is a real improvement for example. Idk if you heard of this app called “Lemmy”, but it’s kinda nice.
But that’s the thing, most new features in corporate-driven social media are not supposed to improve user experience, they are supposed to increase corporate control, marketability and data harvesting.
That’s not the same as the possibility space of good new features for social media being exhausted.
