The best way to stay in the loop on federated social media trends is to join a fediverse instance. It gets discussed a lot there. Anecdotally, there was a lot

The best way to stay in the loop on federated social media trends is to join a fediverse instance. It gets discussed a lot there. Anecdotally, there was a lot of discussion within the fediverse when threads was announced and the general sentiment that a lot of people had, was that instances should immediately defederate from threads to avoid eternal september. Personally, I argued for staying federated with them because I think that would lead to a healthier fediverse. What I envision is: 1. Most normal individuals will be on a corporate-backed, ad-supported instance like threads. 2. Companies and governments will be on custom-domain instances managed by a fediverse service provider who they pay directly, both for branding and in order to avoid being beholden to the poor customer service of the corporate-backed instances. 3. Some tech-savvy individuals will be on small or self-hosted independent instances that provide a differentiated experience in some way. (This is most of the current fediverse) This is basically how email works now and so it seems like the most likely end-state.