In this episode, we dive deep into the origins of two of the leading social networks and the protocols they run on - Threads/ActivityPub and Bluesky/AT protocol. If you've been wondering what the heck the Fediverse is, this episode is for you! Music provided by Epidemic Sound Special Thanks to: Evan Prodomou at Activitypub Eugen Rochko at Mastodon John O'Nolan at Ghost Mike McCue at Flipboard Adam Mosseri at Meta Jay Gruber at Bluesky Ryan Barrett at Bridgy-Fed Sources: W3C: https://www.w3.org/ Identica logo: By _Identi.ca_logo.png: Status.net Teamderivative work: Valarauco (talk) - _Identi.ca_logo.png, CC BY 3.0, https://bit.ly/4cKI4le NY Times Elon and Zuck Cage Match: https://nyti.ms/3XmP2IM ActivityPub Graphic: Image creator: mray https://bit.ly/3T6sYjh Activity Streams graphic: By User:Unoli - https://bit.ly/4dIoUhi Huffpost Twitter Clown Car: https://bit.ly/3YWzPiW Original Hacker News Mastodon Post: https://bit.ly/3Z9oeNk NBC News Elon buys Twitter: https://bit.ly/4dwNBx7 Bloomberg Elon Buys Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Z4X3mW CBS News Elon Buys Twitter: https://bit.ly/3yUBaw6 NBC News Elon Buys Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Xk5WYB NY Times Elon Buys Twitter: https://nyti.ms/3z8xLcW NBC News Twitter Rebrands to X: https://nbcnews.to/3MqIUc8 Verge Twitter Paid Verification: https://bit.ly/3Xn4o06 Forbes How Facebook Beat Myspace: https://bit.ly/3Z3B27X Guardian Digg users revolt: https://bit.ly/3AF2v5U Verge Reddit API Shutdown: https://bit.ly/3YWsyzE Adweek Reddit Platform Visibility: https://bit.ly/3MnLX4Z Elon F You to Advertisers: https://bit.ly/3XjY35w 404Media AI Shrimp Jesus Explained: https://bit.ly/476VGWJ Forbes Threads Fastest Growing App: https://bit.ly/3T4VAco Waveform Secret History of the Internet: https://bit.ly/4dDCmTv Instagram Statement about Political Content: https://bit.ly/4cJxw65 Wired Google Launches Buzz: https://bit.ly/3X7f69s Business Insider Google Buzz Privacy Flaw: https://bit.ly/3X2ThIbFTC Charges Google: https://bit.ly/3AD76FA Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Socials: Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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