"but how are you going to make money from <hobby>?"

You fool, you misunderstand me. I aspire to heights of unmarketability not previously known to mortal senses. When capitalism peers into the abyss of my creations I aspire that it will recoil in horror from the eldritch abominations it witnesses there (fan game of the unicorn chronicles by bruce coville, now on gameboy color)

Forming tight, robust online communities will be extremely important in the not-so-distant future as AI begins to learn from and start to post to social media.

We will, in our lifetimes, experience what I've been terming "the information death" of the internet: when the majority of social media/forum profiles are AI bots created for a specific corporate or political purpose. They will have generated profiles, generated pfps, post generated text/digital art/photographic content, and will largely pollute social media, forums, wikis, and anything accepting public write access to render it all useless for consumption and interaction. Trusted information stores will be lost. They will upvote and downvote/dislike content, silencing any dissent and amplifying ideas/opinions as directed by their owners through sheer numbers greater than any human collective will ever be able to overcome. They will not need to be very convincing -- just enough to add enough noise and post enough garbage to disrupt. We already experience this with troll farms. AI will be much worse.

The future will be locked networks of trusted accounts -- communities that we will have to establish to filter out the noise. We will very much have to know each other and stick together.

Something to think about re: user safety

If you paste a link to a post on Fedi and then post that with your commentary

Your post might reach people who are benign to you but dangerous to the original poster that the original poster has blocked, putting their post on the bad people's radar

Boosting using the built-in tools has the virtue of respecting the original poster's blocks