> More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore

I'm really just not convinced social media is very useful. The main use I can see is very fast dispersal of information, but anything truly important will be distributed by mainstream media, and less important things will travel between small communities at a slower rate. So what are we left with exactly?

I think small communities where people actually have to maintain a reputation are the future, and the past.

I agree with the reputation part, but the reputation part has been a blocker to using mainstream media for me. I can think of lots of important things MSM misses or won't touch (oh and look who happens to be sponsors of this segment). Plus here we are sharing ideas on social media <3

>I think small communities where people actually have to maintain a reputation are the future, and the past.

I believe early on in the internet, there was more discussion of reputation systems like you see for eBay sellers.

Seems like this area hasn't advanced very much. You've got karma systems like on HN, and follow-count systems like on X or Instagram, but both of those arguably track "usage intensity" x "susceptibility to audience capture" more than "reputation".

Low-hanging fruit would be if X showed you the number of Community Notes a user has received. They aren't even bothering to do that.

What you are highlighting is the thing social media has issues with--trust.

the problem is obviously, we can sorta filter out the bot spreading, but when people just use the avenue to spam whatever, it's a firehose only good for bullshit.