Facebook was pretty boring before they tried to make money. Still ick, but mostly just people posting pictures of activities with family or friends.

Exactly, the one big issue with the modern world is the algorithms pushing for engagement as the only important metric.

Although I love Lemmy, I find it will be hard to recommend a normal young person to hop on Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, Misskey, Iceshrimp, etc. Most people on here talk about tech and politics. If you scroll through the main feed, you won't get stuff from other communities unless you seek it out.

Not diverse enough, but once it gets diverse, it will probably enshitify and make the community mainstream garbage. Then we're back to square one with people making clickbait posts and attention seeking people.

None of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others

Not to say they don't have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.

There will be a big curtaining of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Adobe if Facebook, TikTok and Twitter (and YouTube) have their algorithmic feeds outlawed.

It would probably cause the AI bubble to burst too so our OSs, Applications and Search Engines (and Government) would become usable again.