LLMs won’t destroy social media any more than it already is.

I don’t think I have ever had a meaningful human interaction with anyone on Twitter, Meta, or Reddit without already knowing them from somewhere else. Those sites are about interacting with information, not people. It’s purely transactional. Bots, spam, and bad actors are not new.

Meta has been a dumpster fire of spam and bots for over 15 years, the overwhelming majority of its existence.

Reddit has some pockets of meaningful interaction but you have to find them and the partitioned nature means that culture doesn’t spread across the site. It’s also full of bots and shills.

Nobody tells stories about meeting people on Twitter. At best it’s a microblog platform and at worst it’s X.