i actually really welcome a return to a more indie-web way of doing things.
not everyone should need to learn how to admin a linux system to hear from parasocial friends online, but even the worst of the indieweb service aren't too difficult to understand from a pure user perspective. i don't think it's too much to ask people to learn a new way of doing things. every new media site had its own new way of doing things, and maybe we should, you know, leave some of the negative aspects of the old ways in the dustheap of history.
and, selfishly, a lot of new indie web tools move the needle towards the kind of society i want to live in, anyway. i want us to organize more around actual genuine affinity groups. i want our data to be ours, and portable. i want virality to be nearly impossible and clout to be non-existent.
not to discount the very real harm that platforms disappearing do to people who rely on them economically, i feel for every single person who will be forced to scramble for their living when sites collapse. but i also don't want that to be the way to conduct our society, and there isn't some optimal order to make improvements to the way we conduct society that will leave no one hurt. this is why mutual aid practices are SO important.
but right now? tbh it's easier to be hopeful about the future of the internet than it has been in a while.