Most people like being ruled. That's why it's one person performing and thousands sitting and watching, not the other way around. Once early adopters are gone from something, it's usually all spectators what's left, and that's when things turn for the worse. The only thing that can bring back web 1.0 is good dictatorship of sorts, where one person with strong beliefs and good moral character takes control over something big. E.g. somebody wealthy purchasing large social media platform. But we can only hope for that to happen, it's very unlikely there's a person crazy enough to do such a thing today.
I do remind myself that most people are followers. The leaders among us need to help lead others. I would like people to stop berating 'Social Media' because that is a general category and instead berate the specific corporate, AI, state affiliated social media platforms where the problems lie. Free social media such as those in the fediverse do not have the same problems and don't deserve to be lumped in with them. They have their own problems but much fewer.
