The fediverse is the perfect example of how social media should be implemented following Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision when creating the WWW. That's why this feels like pre-2010 internet!
"The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.".
Now it seems most of it is taken up by TikTok videos of someone's pet poodle