Casey Newton

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.

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.