I hope the author is right, and a social evolution toward more open networks would necessarily be the culmination of many factors, but I'm optimistically skeptical. TikTok is like a drug, it is an algorithm that unabashedly and almost directly induces an emotional state. It is similar to amphetamine, opioids, slot machines in that it distils almost to purity the traits needed to solely perform this function. These other addictive things have been around a long time. There's no reason to expect tiktok (or the concept of algorithm interfacing with human to produce chemical happiness) to go away.

That said, I hope so. I hope that these other empty social bahemoths chase tiktok to irrelevance, I hope the population gets burned out on the empty calories, but history tells us that this won't happen really. Some people, enough to keep it all going, just can't stop no matter how miserable it makes them.