PJ Vogt
speaker
333 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
PJ Vogt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you wanted to move homes on that internet, say, switch your email from Yahoo to Gmail, it was mildly annoying, but not a huge deal.
But then social media arrived.
To access those platforms, you usually needed a dedicated account.
Once you started posting on that account, you were now in a game to build as large a following as possible.
And if you were able to build one, you never wanted to leave that platform, since leaving would mean losing your audience.
Users filed quickly and happily into this more closed internet, and along the way, they handed a lot of power to the moguls running it.
The moguls set the rules, and we had to put up with them.
If any of us had issues, our choices were to functionally leave the internet, or worse, complain on the very platforms themselves, turning our anger into just a little more money for the people we were angry with.
But the architects of the Fediverse, they had a more radical idea.
The vision they held was that they could take control of social media out of the hands of the Musks and Zuckerbergs and reroute it back towards more open internet, where no mogul would ever have the same kind of power they do now.
That was their wild dream.
And they were working on nights and weekends for no money, just building out the digital infrastructure that a Fediverse would require.
Establishing shared protocols, building an open standard, coding the first federated social media platforms.
All of this was audacious.
The scale of their dream combined with their meager resources.
These were people trying to build a Millennium Falcon in their garage out of old car parts.
And as of today, that Fediverse, it exists.
You can visit it.
And if you do, you'll see that it functions differently from the internet you're used to.
On our normal internet, if you want to follow a friend to read their tweets, you have to sign up for an account on x.com, Elon Musk's platform.
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