Casey Newton

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.

WordPress is joining it. Ghost, which is this hosting provider that I use for Platformer, is going to join it. And so someday you might just have an app on your phone. And instead of just going to Google to see what's the news of the day, you just open up your app that links you to the Fediverse. And you might be following some publishers there. You might be following some creators there.

WordPress is joining it. Ghost, which is this hosting provider that I use for Platformer, is going to join it. And so someday you might just have an app on your phone. And instead of just going to Google to see what's the news of the day, you just open up your app that links you to the Fediverse. And you might be following some publishers there. You might be following some creators there.

WordPress is joining it. Ghost, which is this hosting provider that I use for Platformer, is going to join it. And so someday you might just have an app on your phone. And instead of just going to Google to see what's the news of the day, you just open up your app that links you to the Fediverse. And you might be following some publishers there. You might be following some creators there.

There might be some ads in it so those folks are getting money. Maybe you do pay a subscription to some of the publishers in there so you get to see all of their paywall posts and they just kind of show up right in your feed. And while there's a lot to figure out in terms of how do you create a good user experience, how do you make that kind of more fun and useful than Google?

There might be some ads in it so those folks are getting money. Maybe you do pay a subscription to some of the publishers in there so you get to see all of their paywall posts and they just kind of show up right in your feed. And while there's a lot to figure out in terms of how do you create a good user experience, how do you make that kind of more fun and useful than Google?

There might be some ads in it so those folks are getting money. Maybe you do pay a subscription to some of the publishers in there so you get to see all of their paywall posts and they just kind of show up right in your feed. And while there's a lot to figure out in terms of how do you create a good user experience, how do you make that kind of more fun and useful than Google?

That just kind of feels like the direction to go to me because instead of one giant walled garden that is just keeping you there, keeping all the revenue for itself, it is a way of rebuilding a web where there's just a lot of organic connections between people and publishers who like each other and have ways about how we can make and share money with each other.

That just kind of feels like the direction to go to me because instead of one giant walled garden that is just keeping you there, keeping all the revenue for itself, it is a way of rebuilding a web where there's just a lot of organic connections between people and publishers who like each other and have ways about how we can make and share money with each other.

That just kind of feels like the direction to go to me because instead of one giant walled garden that is just keeping you there, keeping all the revenue for itself, it is a way of rebuilding a web where there's just a lot of organic connections between people and publishers who like each other and have ways about how we can make and share money with each other.

And so if it works, we're going to have something, I think, that feels much better than the world we have today.

And so if it works, we're going to have something, I think, that feels much better than the world we have today.

And so if it works, we're going to have something, I think, that feels much better than the world we have today.

Here's my case that it could work.

Here's my case that it could work.

Here's my case that it could work.

Threads is an app that has 150 million monthly users. It is 10 months old, and it is part of the Fediverse. So that means, as hard as it is to believe, 150 million people every month are in the Fediverse. For the most part, they don't know about it, and they don't care. And that's actually a great sign. Because as we've just established through our tortured explanations of the Fediverse...

Threads is an app that has 150 million monthly users. It is 10 months old, and it is part of the Fediverse. So that means, as hard as it is to believe, 150 million people every month are in the Fediverse. For the most part, they don't know about it, and they don't care. And that's actually a great sign. Because as we've just established through our tortured explanations of the Fediverse...

Threads is an app that has 150 million monthly users. It is 10 months old, and it is part of the Fediverse. So that means, as hard as it is to believe, 150 million people every month are in the Fediverse. For the most part, they don't know about it, and they don't care. And that's actually a great sign. Because as we've just established through our tortured explanations of the Fediverse...

Nobody wants to understand what it is or how it works. So we're already working on one of the biggest problems with the Fed. And the thing is, PJ, I'm not the only person who's worried about this. You know, yesterday... I met with two folks. One is a guy, Eugene Rochko, who's the founder of Mastodon. The other guy is Mike McHugh, who's the co-founder of Flipboard.