PJ Vogt
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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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You have to follow his rules.
You have to trust him with your direct messages.
By default, you're offered posts in the order his algorithm chooses.
On the federated internet, if you have a friend microblogging on a federated platform like Mastodon, you can follow their account from anywhere in the Fediverse.
You don't ever have to join Mastodon itself.
And if your home platform does get bought by some temperamental tech mogul, you can leave.
And given a little technical expertise, when you pop up at your new federated internet home, you'll have all of the followers you did before.
It is exciting.
It is also still incredibly hard to understand and harder to explain.
If I wanted to really get the potential of this and the pitfalls of it, I would need to experience the Fediverse for myself.
So I went back into the studio, this time with Casey and Kevin Roos, his co-host on the podcast Hardfork, to discuss and experiment.
Oh, Casey, yeah, you're muted somehow.
The three of us were all millennials, old enough to use words like fam, but also old enough to have grown up on a more fun version of the internet, to have seen it change.
And we believed it could still change again.
But if the promise of the Fediverse was utopia tomorrow, what we wanted to know was, what about today?
And Kevin had had an idea about how to find out.
For me, if right now, you know, very early into our, I don't even wanna say reporting, like understanding of what the dream these people are trying to describe is, like my understanding is that basically one of the problems with the social media internet we've built
is that the platform you show up on is going to guide acceptable behavior.
Like Twitter is gonna make you think in bumper stickers, Instagram's gonna make you realize that everyone you know is like thinner and on vacation or whatever.
And that the sort of boundaries of what kind of person we can be,
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