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I think the next stage is decentralized social media. Something like nostr (1) where there’s no centralized entity determining the algorithm to boost. It’s up to the individual to follow users.

Perhaps the next challenge would be human verification, even with this protocol we’d need something to index public people by to handle discovery.

Even before LLM’s became as mainstream as they are, most social media platforms were riddled with spam: affiliate marketing, drop shipping crap, and people who are running some sort of con.

1 - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr already has 8k stars on github



I think this decentralized social media future is already here, and it's private discord servers


The past is the future, and it was called IRC


GitHub stars? You mean the stars you can purchase through third party bot services? (As shown here recently on HN!)


The next stage is requiring a phone number to sign up and having no privacy online.


The AI flood coming is the authoritarians wet dream for multiple reasons.




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