Building social media apps “is not cool anymore”

Broadly, I agree with what Alexis Ohanian is saying here. I simply don’t believe people are craving social media apps - or what we know as the current social media “experience” - at all these days. Ultimately it feels like we need the current incumbents to die right back, and only then can better things rise up in their place. That being said, as long as any massive app follows the “sell your data” angle to make money, it is likely doomed to the same outcome as Insta et al…

WIREDReddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’Alexis Ohanian is trying to figure out what’s next for user-generated content now that so much of the internet is “compromised.”