According to Alexis Ohanian, investor and Reddit co-founder, there’s some truth to the idea, and a new era of social media will emerge because of it.
For Ohanian, the solution to mitigating the power of bots on the internet is perhaps more romantic: Apps should be more human.
“I think we’ll see a next generation of social media merge that’s verifiably human because it’s all going down in the group chats now—that is not novel tech,” Ohanian said. “There’s got to be some next iteration of that, because that’s where all of us are getting our, really, best info now.”
“I think we’re gonna get really delightful, fun consumer experiences where some scrappy founders in Brooklyn, like the Doji guys can say, ‘Hey, let’s make shopping fun again using this tech,’” he said.
“How do you build the stuff that’s actually dope for the end consumer?” Ohanian said.
