David Pierce

you have something that is so much bigger than that, that is open and chaotic and that anyone can build tools for and anyone can participate in and anyone can decide how they want to participate in it. It changes the whole dynamic and it's a complete shift in how we experience the internet now. But let me just give you one sort of concrete example.

Think of the Fediverse as basically just a giant bucket of posts. They are a bunch of text or a video or an audio clip or an image, and they come with who sent them and when. You in a Fediverse world can choose any app that you want to make those posts. I can read them any way that I want. In a Fediverse world, you have Snapchat and you post something on Snapchat.

Think of the Fediverse as basically just a giant bucket of posts. They are a bunch of text or a video or an audio clip or an image, and they come with who sent them and when. You in a Fediverse world can choose any app that you want to make those posts. I can read them any way that I want. In a Fediverse world, you have Snapchat and you post something on Snapchat.

Think of the Fediverse as basically just a giant bucket of posts. They are a bunch of text or a video or an audio clip or an image, and they come with who sent them and when. You in a Fediverse world can choose any app that you want to make those posts. I can read them any way that I want. In a Fediverse world, you have Snapchat and you post something on Snapchat.

I open up Instagram and I can see the thing that you posted on Snapchat. And if I comment on it or like it, it goes back to your Snapchat where that information lives. And you can be on Snapchat and I can be on Instagram and we can have that relationship. And that's just cool because it means that, A, if you stop liking the app that you're using...

I open up Instagram and I can see the thing that you posted on Snapchat. And if I comment on it or like it, it goes back to your Snapchat where that information lives. And you can be on Snapchat and I can be on Instagram and we can have that relationship. And that's just cool because it means that, A, if you stop liking the app that you're using...

I open up Instagram and I can see the thing that you posted on Snapchat. And if I comment on it or like it, it goes back to your Snapchat where that information lives. And you can be on Snapchat and I can be on Instagram and we can have that relationship. And that's just cool because it means that, A, if you stop liking the app that you're using...

Leaving it doesn't mean losing all of your content and losing all of your followers and losing everything that you've ever done there. You can pick that stuff up and move it somewhere else. And given what we've seen from these social networks, that's really important. There are a lot of people who make their living on these networks now.

Leaving it doesn't mean losing all of your content and losing all of your followers and losing everything that you've ever done there. You can pick that stuff up and move it somewhere else. And given what we've seen from these social networks, that's really important. There are a lot of people who make their living on these networks now.

Leaving it doesn't mean losing all of your content and losing all of your followers and losing everything that you've ever done there. You can pick that stuff up and move it somewhere else. And given what we've seen from these social networks, that's really important. There are a lot of people who make their living on these networks now.

And then Elon Musk shows up and changes the algorithm so that if you're not spewing right wing propaganda, there's no way to get reach on the platform. That hurts people's business or TikTok shows up and says, well, instead of doing dance challenges, if you're not selling stuff on the TikTok shop, we're going to bury you in the feed. That just kills people's livelihoods.

And then Elon Musk shows up and changes the algorithm so that if you're not spewing right wing propaganda, there's no way to get reach on the platform. That hurts people's business or TikTok shows up and says, well, instead of doing dance challenges, if you're not selling stuff on the TikTok shop, we're going to bury you in the feed. That just kills people's livelihoods.

And then Elon Musk shows up and changes the algorithm so that if you're not spewing right wing propaganda, there's no way to get reach on the platform. That hurts people's business or TikTok shows up and says, well, instead of doing dance challenges, if you're not selling stuff on the TikTok shop, we're going to bury you in the feed. That just kills people's livelihoods.

And so being able to pick up and say, my followers, my content, my experience on this platform is now portable somewhere else is powerful on its own. The other side of it is that what it does is it takes a social network and just sort of explodes it into a thousand pieces. So right now, if you sign up for Facebook, you're signing up for Facebook's app.

And so being able to pick up and say, my followers, my content, my experience on this platform is now portable somewhere else is powerful on its own. The other side of it is that what it does is it takes a social network and just sort of explodes it into a thousand pieces. So right now, if you sign up for Facebook, you're signing up for Facebook's app.

And so being able to pick up and say, my followers, my content, my experience on this platform is now portable somewhere else is powerful on its own. The other side of it is that what it does is it takes a social network and just sort of explodes it into a thousand pieces. So right now, if you sign up for Facebook, you're signing up for Facebook's app.

You're signing up for Facebook's content moderation ideas. You're signing up for Facebook's photo compression experience. You're signing up for Facebook's executives and how they feel about advertising. You could break those things into their component parts and essentially say, OK, I want to read posts in this app because I like the way that it looks.

You're signing up for Facebook's content moderation ideas. You're signing up for Facebook's photo compression experience. You're signing up for Facebook's executives and how they feel about advertising. You could break those things into their component parts and essentially say, OK, I want to read posts in this app because I like the way that it looks.

You're signing up for Facebook's content moderation ideas. You're signing up for Facebook's photo compression experience. You're signing up for Facebook's executives and how they feel about advertising. You could break those things into their component parts and essentially say, OK, I want to read posts in this app because I like the way that it looks.

But I want this version of content moderation because I think that fits better with how I see the world and what I want my experience to be. You get to just build your experience of the Internet sort of piece by piece rather than having to sign up for someone's entire idea about how it should be. Do we have smaller scale Fetaverses out there already?