I recall seeing there was a site that someone was personally building with this idea in mind, but I don't recall what it was called.
Both of these complaints could be fixed by a better internet search engine. Articles like this feel like a signal that conditions for a change in search dominance are finally materialising.
Let's start with the huge societal problems:
- optimizing for addiction
- fighting for attention
People need social validation for their personalities. Social media drives people into perfectionism - yet never being enough. You need to modify your entire self image to fit somekind of hazy image of perfect whatever. You are fighting for attention, you need to do ever more crazy and better shit to get more attention.
Other huge societal problems:
- sensorship, misinformation, death of journalism and therefore truth and therefore democracy
- centralized greedy growth-seeking monopolist culture kills innovation, creates dystopia
Is a well functioning distributed system a possibility? Your own device, or your goverments, or some global 3rd party, you choose, as a host? Let's not give the control of the internet to another monopoly with hardware like amazon, or monopoly with the traffic like cloudfare or whatever. Let's avoid these giant tech monopolies.