I would share the Integrity under Culture. Our hypercapitalist society gives unfair advantage to those wielding their vices. It is a distrust-first society. The task of fostering healthy social networking environments, in combined social and technological approaches, should be to forge and sustain safe online spaces where there are increased levels of trust between people, and there’s emphasis on people’s virtues, including the the trust in their integrity. SX for this purpose is based on intrinsic values of Humanity and Freedom for this purpose.
Regarding the corrosion and crumbling of the open internet, Social coding commons is based on the notion that if the technology base and ecosystem must be commons based to avoid that. The problem with “open internet”, same as with “open source”, is that it is also open to the bad actors.
Sideways related to “corrosion”, I do make a clear distinction between “social networking” and “social media”, where the latter is a subset of the first and refers to the typical broadcast media or mass social media we have today (also on the fediverse, first generation). If it is up to me we’ll enter a new generation of social networking soon, where there is a much more modest role for broadcast channels that fit more naturally to people’s everyday’s life. Today there was a nice article discussed on HN that aligns to my thoughts here..
Quoting from the article, which was written by James O’Sullivan..
Architectures Of Intention
The successor to mass social media is, as already noted, emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens.
Maybe today’s major social media platforms will find new ways to hold the gaze of the masses, or maybe they will continue to decline in relevance, lingering like derelict shopping centers or a dying online game, haunted by bots and the echo of once‑human chatter. Occasionally we may wander back, out of habit or nostalgia, or to converse once more as a crowd, among the ruins. But as social media collapses on itself, the future points to a quieter, more fractured, more human web, something that no longer promises to be everything, everywhere, for everyone.
This is a good thing. Group chats and invite‑only circles are where context and connection survive. These are spaces defined less by scale than by shared understanding, where people no longer perform for an algorithmic audience but speak in the presence of chosen others. Messaging apps like Signal are quietly becoming dominant infrastructures for digital social life, not because they promise discovery, but because they don’t. In these spaces, a message often carries more meaning because it is usually directed, not broadcast.
The top comment on HN highlights a big opportunity and the weak spot (or Achilles Heel even?) of AI madness: Throwing yet more tech to try to bridge the huge gap that exists between tech and people + society. Humans are experts in this field, whereas AI is just cold hard machinery. Here is the comment..
When social media emerged, I remember how excited I was how it could connect like-minded people around the world. Now in 2025, the leader of the biggest platforms is talking about making people less lonely by connecting them to AI chatbots instead of making people find one another. That just feels like a huge lost potential.