If you look at how RSS fell from use, there were two major issues. On the user side, users had to go out to find content as there wasn’t an inherent way to search for content within the system. On the creator side, creators had to deal with advertising themselves to users and they had to handle the monetization by themselves.

Social media created the algorithm to find content and developed some revenue sharing with creators.

If federated media takes off, it will probably look like Threads or Truth Social, where control of a front end monetizes development of the platform.