...I think the indie web has a big problem...

I can see your criticisms, but I also think the "DIY" nature of SpaceHey makes it more eye-catching for me.

If you want a modern social media that is less exploitative and rage-baitey and is still accessible to use, try BlueSky. You don't have to know anything Fediverse or whatever to use it, and there's plenty of (unironic) boomers that use it.

You don't have to use a single algorithm on it, just follow people, by disabling the "Discover" feed on your account. Boom. No algorithm.

As for the criticism of "making an echochamber" by making another site...what should we do? We can't exactly just tell Twitter and Facebook to be better. They clearly won't listen and need regulated.

Well, that' kinda my point: what should we do?  Allegedly the "indie web" was the answer, but from what I can tell, we're just pretending it's the answer!  We don't have an answer!  Nobody knows what the hell they're doing!

And this isn't just about social media.  A lot of "personal" pages are also "eye-catching", but then that's about it.  You know what you're left with after the five seconds it takes for the novelty to wear off?  Nothing, because we're more concerned with "making your own website" than we are with making something of substance!  How is that any better than churning out content on youtube?

And BlueSky is just a twitter knockoff!  I've desperately wanted people to stop using twitter!  I didn't understand why people thought twitter of all places was the best option when they migrated from tumblr, and I don't understand what they think they'll lose if they leave!  So even if people finally conceded that BlueSky was doing all the stuff that they allegedly liked about twitter, what makes you think I want twitter to get swapped out with another twitter?  I don't want another facebook, another reddit or another pinterest!  Even Pillowfort is a hard sell!  I only gave spacehey specifically a shot because of it's association with the indie web and because I remember what Myspace use to be like, but guess what?  Despite all the great lengths they've taken to ape their predecessor, the try-hard just isn't Myspace!  And you know what else?  If spacehey is gonna get any better, they'll become even less like Myspace!

As for "regulation", I'm sorry, but I wanna get rid of sociopolitical systems, not make more of them and compound the problem!  Whatever gets implemented will just be used against us like everything else!  Remember how copyright was supposed protect us?  Now "Donut Steel" is a punchline and Nintendo always wins!  If this is really the indie web, then it'd be part of the anti-copyright movement.

...and just what the hell are you implying with the "boomer" crack?

Why does a profile have to be anything of "substance?" But to a lot of people here, they are substantive representations of themselves. I intend to write more blog posts, share my opinions, and likeminded people can read them if they wish. It's a fairly laidback system, I like it.

SpaceHey isn't a popularity contest, that's why it's different from YouTube. It's not fastfastfastfast, it's chill.

Bluesky is more than just a Twitter knockoff. You can curate your actual
experience and avoid an algorithm. The algorithm is the problem with
Twitter. You can avoid it. That solves a problem. It's a modern social
media site that let's you dodge an algorithm. No other modern social
media site does this. If modern social media is going to exist, people should use the most responsible version of it. That is BlueSky. You can have "retro" options like SpaceHey too. You even have a BlueSky account linked on your SpaceHey profile, so I know you've used it before.

I legitimately have no idea what you want in this. You get what you put in. What do you want? What kind of social networking service do you wish to use? I wasn't drawn here solely because of the graphic design, I was drawn here because I think it's also a more responsible social networking service.

I support regulating algorithms because they've been demonstrably harmful to our youth, teenagers, adults, elderly, everyone. The spread of dangerous misinformation, disinformation, etc. has been disastrous to our global society. Companies should not be able to dump waste into our water supply, they are. We ought to crackdown on it.

My "boomer" comment wasn't a joke, it was my point that actual boomers and less-tech inclined people can use Bluesky, and that is a good thing. How old are you? I'm 24.

I would like to know something if it doesn't bother you, and I would be grateful if you answered them with (1) and (2) so I won't get confused :)

1) What problems do you have with Spacehey? I mean, what does Spacehey do for you to not like it at all (I'm guessing you just don't like it at all or it's not what you were expecting). 

2) What would be your ideal social media? I mean, what would you think it is what you would be expecting, if you expect something. Not forced to answer this question if you don't know/aren't sure of what to say. 

1. I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear, but wasn't talking about spacehey specifically, but rather the indie web in general.  I actually had trouble embedding a related video, but it is linked at the top.  If you want the tl;dr version, at the risk of butchering it, the gist is basically:

• The top coders actually get paid for their work
• The runner-ups have crawled so far up their own asses that they've lost touch with the wider user base
• The best users are the best designers, and neither can code for shit

i both agree & disagree
i think it's easy for people to just be drawn to the appearance of the indie web or new old web movement & nothing else
however i've seen people post stuff they won't post on other sites & express themselves in ways they won't otherwise
also people might engage with different indie web sites differently
for example i engage with my neocities & spacehey differently
i think all social media is shallow in some way but people can and still do use it to make posts/videos of substance

I have so many criticism on this I don't know where to start LOL.
So, first off: what is your experience with the indie web? Because as someone who has been running my website for around a year it has genuinely been so refreshing. I've met so many lovely people through webrings and guestbook messages. And as stupid as that sounds, the solution really is "just learn how to code". It's not hard, and you don't need to do it well (let's not act like most geocities websites weren't shit LOL). Yes, there are a lot of indie (and not) sites taht allow profile customization. But most of them do so through CSS (see Toyhouse, for example). In fact, indie sites tend to be more reliant on having users write CSS because it's the easiest option to implement.

In reference to the video: I have so many gripes with it LOL. As many people pointed out in the comments, open source software doesn't lag behind nearly as much as OP makes it out to be. The main difference, to me, is that open source software tend to require more expertise to be used. EG: using yt-dlp, which is a command line tool, requires more experience than paying for a youtube subscription to download a video. Setting up Linux is harder than just running store-installed windows. Etc.
As many comments pointed out: several open source software, like Blender and OBS, are their industry standard.
I have been using almost exclusively open-source programs for years. From really popular ones like Notepad++ for coding to random commandline tools for niche stuff. I've never looked back to proprietary software since.

I think a lot of people fail to understand that the indieweb and open source software are the natural state of things, and not something we are trying to "force". The web was founded on principles of free access to information and open source technology.