Casey Newton

Google is just going to be the Star Trek computer, it's going to tell you whatever you need to know, don't worry about visiting the web anymore.

Google is just going to be the Star Trek computer, it's going to tell you whatever you need to know, don't worry about visiting the web anymore.

Google is just going to be the Star Trek computer, it's going to tell you whatever you need to know, don't worry about visiting the web anymore.

And while they protested, that's not really what we meant, and we're still going to send lots of traffic, and we believe in the web, at the end of the day, I was like, no, you're telling us what you want to do, you've been building it for 20 years, and now you're really close. So I just think it's time that we take them seriously about that.

And while they protested, that's not really what we meant, and we're still going to send lots of traffic, and we believe in the web, at the end of the day, I was like, no, you're telling us what you want to do, you've been building it for 20 years, and now you're really close. So I just think it's time that we take them seriously about that.

And while they protested, that's not really what we meant, and we're still going to send lots of traffic, and we believe in the web, at the end of the day, I was like, no, you're telling us what you want to do, you've been building it for 20 years, and now you're really close. So I just think it's time that we take them seriously about that.

I have the best, worst, dorkiest answer to that question, PJ, which is that we have to finish building the Fediverse. Really? Yes. You're already so upset that I'm making you talk about this, and that's fine.

I have the best, worst, dorkiest answer to that question, PJ, which is that we have to finish building the Fediverse. Really? Yes. You're already so upset that I'm making you talk about this, and that's fine.

I have the best, worst, dorkiest answer to that question, PJ, which is that we have to finish building the Fediverse. Really? Yes. You're already so upset that I'm making you talk about this, and that's fine.

We should all be upset that we have to talk about the Fediverse, but that's where Google has driven us to.

We should all be upset that we have to talk about the Fediverse, but that's where Google has driven us to.

We should all be upset that we have to talk about the Fediverse, but that's where Google has driven us to.

Yeah. So... Fediverse is a way for people to take back the internet for themselves. It's a way to have an identity and connect to other things that are important to you online and just not worry about having to fight through a Google algorithm or a Facebook algorithm. In fact, you can bring your own algorithm if you want to. I'm already doing such a bad job of explaining what the Fediverse is.

Yeah. So... Fediverse is a way for people to take back the internet for themselves. It's a way to have an identity and connect to other things that are important to you online and just not worry about having to fight through a Google algorithm or a Facebook algorithm. In fact, you can bring your own algorithm if you want to. I'm already doing such a bad job of explaining what the Fediverse is.

Yeah. So... Fediverse is a way for people to take back the internet for themselves. It's a way to have an identity and connect to other things that are important to you online and just not worry about having to fight through a Google algorithm or a Facebook algorithm. In fact, you can bring your own algorithm if you want to. I'm already doing such a bad job of explaining what the Fediverse is.

But that's pretty good, right? It's a collective term for these various web platforms that use open source and decentralized protocols to let different platforms communicate and interact across these different hosting services. That's probably about as technical as you need to go. But the way I think of it is... It's just like a way to bring some humanity back to the internet.

But that's pretty good, right? It's a collective term for these various web platforms that use open source and decentralized protocols to let different platforms communicate and interact across these different hosting services. That's probably about as technical as you need to go. But the way I think of it is... It's just like a way to bring some humanity back to the internet.

But that's pretty good, right? It's a collective term for these various web platforms that use open source and decentralized protocols to let different platforms communicate and interact across these different hosting services. That's probably about as technical as you need to go. But the way I think of it is... It's just like a way to bring some humanity back to the internet.

It's a way to sort of rest it back from these giant mega tech platforms. It's a way to personalize things to your own liking, to like sort of customize them. And so it is starting with these social platform. Mastodon was the first thing in the Fediverse. Threads, which is actually now much bigger than Mastodon, is a meta product, but it is part of the Fediverse. Flipboard is joining it.

It's a way to sort of rest it back from these giant mega tech platforms. It's a way to personalize things to your own liking, to like sort of customize them. And so it is starting with these social platform. Mastodon was the first thing in the Fediverse. Threads, which is actually now much bigger than Mastodon, is a meta product, but it is part of the Fediverse. Flipboard is joining it.