"How We Lost Communication to Entertainment" by @ploum https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html

I loved this post even though it's a bit bleak. Social media evolved into a power-law thing where a small percent of accounts produces content, a slightly larger percent remixes it, and most people just surf (myself included on many platforms!).

The fediverse probably hasn't escaped this, but it does have other virtues.