David Pierce

It is federated and universe and it's a problem because nerds are bad at naming things. But the idea of it is very exciting. And the idea of it is to take social networks out of being these individual platforms where Instagram is its own thing and Facebook is its own thing and Twitter is its own thing and TikTok is its own thing.

It is federated and universe and it's a problem because nerds are bad at naming things. But the idea of it is very exciting. And the idea of it is to take social networks out of being these individual platforms where Instagram is its own thing and Facebook is its own thing and Twitter is its own thing and TikTok is its own thing.

and just smash all of those things together into something the size of the internet and make it work. Something very big. It would be huge. And that's the thing that's so exciting is that instead of having a bunch of followers and posts and content that lives inside of a little box that some nefarious billionaire controls,

and just smash all of those things together into something the size of the internet and make it work. Something very big. It would be huge. And that's the thing that's so exciting is that instead of having a bunch of followers and posts and content that lives inside of a little box that some nefarious billionaire controls,

and just smash all of those things together into something the size of the internet and make it work. Something very big. It would be huge. And that's the thing that's so exciting is that instead of having a bunch of followers and posts and content that lives inside of a little box that some nefarious billionaire controls,

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.

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.

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.