Its true that the current honeymoon period will not be forever. But what comes afterwards will be even better. People have been conditioned to think that the s

Its true that the current honeymoon period will not be forever. But what comes afterwards will be even better. People have been conditioned to think that the social media experience cannot but be enshittifed. (Its even the word of the year 2024 in Australia). But this is no law of nature, this the result of very specific business models. While everything in the bluesky/atproto niche is now rather centralized and offers little more than a twitter UX, the possibilities are endless if people build an actual ecosystem around it. One can have alternative "views", different user functionalities that completely transform what users experience. Once you start thinking of users as people and not product, an untapped universe of possibilities is opening up. The concept of diverse interoperating platforms swimming in a pool of message passing is more advanced in the activitypub space. From wordpress plugins, to goodreads and reddit alternatives and an entire zoo of specialized platforms. The severe underfunding keeps all those things away from prime time but they are proving something important: The old social media order is dead. Mastodon and the fediverse proved that first but it was too niche for most people to notice. Now bluesky does it more forcefully and in the mainstream. The news can no longer be suppressed.