Baby steps, look for a disruptive idea/method/technology to upend social media in the near future. They are mature platforms and ripe for it to happen. Look at the rise of the iPod. Before it Rio, Empeg, Zune; all either swept away or relegated to a tech backwater. However each dominated for a time until something better came along. They had a piece of the puzzle each but the iPod put them together. I'd see the same with parler, gab, mastodon, etc.

Then the iPhone wiped out the iPod, creative destruction. Innovative companies do that, they don't try to stifle competition.* They blow it out of the water. Does fakebook & twatter seem like cutting edge innovators now or just trying to hang onto their original idea? Am really curious how Musk's Starlink fits into the overall picture by bypassing current terrestrial infrastructure?

*Apple is no longer an innovator.