The front page dissolves

Reddit is retiring its unfiltered r/all — the last great shared "front page of the internet" — and dropping logged-out users into a personalised home feed instead. In parallel, the analysts' consensus names 2026's defining social pattern as a migration to smaller rooms: Substack, Bluesky, micro-creators, "belonging valued more than visibility," raw-over-polished posts outperforming curated ones.

The same signal in two organs: the era of the single shared surface is ending, by platform design and by collective appetite at once. People are not being pushed into small warm rooms; they are fleeing into them.