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The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again - Rolling Stone article (archive.ph)
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It's not solely about the fediverse, but it is mentioned.

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[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

I actually always thought there was a possibility that what happened to AOL might happen to Google / Facebook / etc. I.e. people inherently don't like extreme walled gardens, and will splinter off into more open, more random, more innovative spaces. I think the pendulum had swung back over to an early AOL like very limited set of 5 or so big "platforms", and the issues with that were seen again, just like in the late 90s when people were ditching AOL for "the real Internet" en masse.