You're drawing some arbitrary line where a "focused audience" isn't "social media" whereas a "media site that tries to house everyone" is. All of these are soc

You're drawing some arbitrary line where a "focused audience" isn't "social media" whereas a "media site that tries to house everyone" is. All of these are social media. Tik Tok, Reddit, Hacker News, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Github (yes, Github), Discord, and on and on... they're all social media, in that they provide places for individuals to connect and communicate. Which is what the OP seemed to be objecting to. Personally, I 100% agree with you: I don't believe winner-takes-all social media platforms must necessarily be the future, and in fact I think it'd be better if there was far greater diversity, which is why I strongly believe in a protocols-over-platforms future.