I see the concern, because I agree that social media has to some degree already done this, and that we've lost something in that process.

But - there's no reason this couldn't actually be a good thing. I can totally imagine a platform[0] where the focus is less on creation and more on curation. I sub to some person or community who's going to share good links, and I see only that, instead of the slop firehose from The Algorithm.

(and yes, social media was already more like this, in the early days).

[0] and platform implies more than I mean, could just be some nice wrapper around RSS or activitypub or whatever