@mmasnick sees Mastodon, Bluesky, and the rest of the open social web as an antidote to the AI-generated decline of the internet:
"decentralized social media could offer an alternative to the world in which all the information we consume is intermediated by a single centralized player, whether it’s a search engine like Google, or a social media service like Meta [...] one in which you get to build the experience you want, rather than the one a giant company wants."