Can Anyone Dethrone Meta and TikTok?

We're looking at the latest wave of social media challengers and debating if they actually stand a chance against incumbents like Meta and TikTok

Sources used for this episode:
- https://www.wired.com/story/this-platform-wants-to-return-civil-discourse-to-social-media-by-scoring-users/
- https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/custom-feed-builder-graze-is-building-a-business-on-bluesky-and-investors-are-paying-attention/
- https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-statistics/
- https://www.theverge.com/news/637668/facebook-friends-only-feed-algorithm
- https://www.newsweek.com/bluesky-anti-toxicity-features-twitter-x-rival-1946192
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2025/01/25/open-source-and-ethical-tiktok-whatsapp-and-instagram-alternatives-could-transform-social-media/
- https://www.mixbloom.com/resources/average-time-spent-on-social-media-2022
- https://backlinko.com/reddit-users
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/reddit-ipo-public-content-moderation.html
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/onlyfans-reveals-record-breaking-revenue-175230410.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB8C1AhVRqO6lA4jpYImMyqCoo7eDMbq7vCJRjmakXc5cNI5fQV5HCs2cRtDZGcZPmoSMWzhrjSFgCme47b2aT8SPWy82kf9Co3gcs865LDCvtaMcr1nImL26j5wAimTfdbDFB22f_C9IaBz-4DnGu7-jv5z2s-jQXpjQEIOb7Tz