Same thing that happened to Digg. It slowly fades away until it shuts down. Then maybe in 20 years, they try to revive it with some idiotic fad gimmick which also fails.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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it won't.
fb/instagram are already there and nobody stopped using them in large numbers.
But I can tailor my feeds to be primarily people I know. Also, I have largely stopped using the feeds on these platforms. On fb, for example, I use Messenger and Marketplace. My feed, otoh, I scroll down through for a post or two that my friends made on my way to marketplace, then stop scrolling once it runs out of content relevant to me.
On reddit, content made by people I don't know is all the content. So if it degrades in quality, I will stop showing up. Which I did. Which is why I'm here.
It's a circle jerk. Bots get paid by companies to shill, ads from companies provide revenue to companies.
Wait, this sounds awfully familiar... Oh yeah! The money changing hands between NVIDIA and Open AI xD
This is the new economy folks. Insurance, pharma and hospital networks do the same damn thing. Money literally doesn't mean anything anymore.
Bots may be producing content, but they aren't consuming it to that volume. If they are, it just means that ad per view revenue drops.
They'll just train the bots on the fediverse!
The fediverse is no better. Well it is, but only because most of the bots haven't discovered it yet. If/when the fediverse takes off the bots will be right there.
I think you’ll find most instance owners unwilling to pay for bot armies to swarm their instances.
fair. Though that seems like it will shutdown the fediverse. Either because you can only connect if you personally know someone to get you an account (that is chain of trust - because we have proven to validate our users we will federate), or because their are no instances.
We’ve made it a decade, I think you’ll find us more resilient than you expect.
Lots of useful posts will be gone. Unironicly
Nothing of value will be lost.
Weekend at ~~Bernies~~ Spez's.
I think people would just either live among them or like move to other websites like this one ^^