and hopefully soon we have decentralized protocols as the standard when we think about user spaces. amen

We had it. Reddit should have just been NNTP. You can't "monetize" NNTP though.

I used to be a lot more enthusiastic about decentralized protocols. I don't know how to solve the AI problem though. I think the Internet as we knew it for assumed-human interaction is dead, and the surest way to believe you're interacting with humans now is through existing trusts, such as accounts older than AI and highly-moderated forums, and to charge for access.