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I'm wondering if the end of Mainstream social media will be caused by fragmentation.

The fact that all of the major platforms are changing hands, having to change due to government bans or laws, or from CEOs who force changes people don't like into their platforms.

Then and a bunch of others cropping up trying to take their place.

not that I would mind considering that the entire mainstream internet is now 5 or 6 websites owned by 3 or 4 people and all of them are either fucking awful, have TONS of ads on them or Boost Right Wingers and Bigots while censoring LGBTQ content

Overall, I'm kinda hopeful and Scared about the future of the internet

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The One Big Website situation is an anomaly. We used to churn through "the place to be" every couple of years.

This is so overdue. Don't be scared.
- Things were REALLY fucking bleak 10-15 years ago. Even though they are still relatively small, the growth of alternative places like Lemmy and Mastodon, along with a sort of rebirth of independent websites and blogs has been very inspiring. It is nowhere near mainstream, but there is a growing community in the collective disdain for Silicon Valley. More and more, people have grown to understand that websites being driven into the ground isn't a coincidence of poor management, but a fundamental law of Capitalism. People in general are a lot less naive than they used to be.
  
  But has the government ever gone this far to ban access to one of the largest information hubs for political reasons? This seems right out of the red scare
- Nah straight up, i cant wait to never hear about instagram facebook tik tok and twitter ever again
All websites will be tiny forums with slightly different ideologies. By 2030 we will have a Hexsnare; a Marxist Leninist forum that believe in revolution only through making a new Red Army chior but through drums, Pecksbear; a pro China Anarchist polycule trying to resurrected Stalin, PlexBear; a Juche Linux web hosting and movie sharing website where all the content uploaded has to some way relate to AES, Bear; An image board similar to instagram, where you can only post about the Hexbear and how dope the bear is, and He𝕏bear; a communist forum that believes in accelerstionism through Elon Musk gaining the reigns of the United states. All of these websites with further fracture into 30 new websites come 2040.
- GOOD post
- Yeah I've been thinking a lot about our future balkanized internet.
  
  Interesting times ahead.
  
  The Balkanized internet seems like it would just be the internet reverting to how it was in 2004 except with more people. Which is good, this place has made me miss the days of smaller forums that each had their own culture.
I kinda hope so. I grew up with a few good years of forums and smaller sites pre-The Big Websites, and it felt more vast when people didn't just use The Big Websites. I remember jumping around various gaming forums, and that's kinda how exploring the Fediverse feels now
The Internet by 2030:
- God I hope I get tanged

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