Out of Context Podcast Quotes"It built the iPhone, and totally destroyed a really great iPod business!" - DAVID PIERCE, How to stop being so phone addicted (without self-discipline or meditation), Search Engine #SearchEngine #NationaliPodDay #DavidPierce
"You CAN buy alarm clocks!" - DAVID PIERCE, How to stop being so phone addicted (without self-discipline or meditation), Search Engine #SearchEngine #DavidPierce
Strypey"Federation is the idea of decentralizing and distributing something so it’s not controlled and stored in a single place."
#DavidPierce, 2024
https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
Hmm, not quite. In a nutshell;
* decentralisation: "not controlled and stored in a single place"
* federated: a form of decentralisation that uses servers, but you can choose which one
In contrast to...
* distributed: a form of decentralisation without servers, where all connections are from app to app (P2P/ Peer-to-Peer)
Looks like the #fediverse has champions at the Verge;
"But all of this stuff only works if there is a standard, and I’d bet $10 that ActivityPub is going to be that standard. It’s the one that’s overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s the one with the most momentum, it’s the one Threads is supposedly going to support — it’s just kind of clearly winning."
#DavidPierce, Verge editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host, 2024
https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
"For a while, the internet got away from what Google Reader was trying to build: everything moved into walled gardens and algorithmic feeds, governed by Facebook and Twitter and TikTok and others. But now, as that era ends and a new moment on the web is starting to take hold through Mastodon, Bluesky, and others, the things Reader wanted to be are beginning to come back."
#DavidPierce, 2023
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
"It turned out there were two types of Reader users: the completionists, who go through every unread item they have, and the folks who just scroll around until they find something. Both sides think the other is bonkers."
#DavidPierce, 2023
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
I suspect this is also true of the fediverse. I'm the second type. There's no way I'd read everything that comes down the firehose of all the accounts I follow.
"But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web."
#DavidPierce, 2023
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
"AMP became a key component in an antitrust lawsuit filed just five years after its launch in 2020 by 17 state attorneys general, accusing Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly on the advertising industry. The states argue that Google designed AMP in part to thwart publishers from using alternative ad tools — tools that would have generated more money for publishers and less for Google."
#DavidPierce, 2023
https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit
Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over
Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide adoption, its poor implementation led to publishers abandoning AMP and, in the end, ruined the trust they had in the internet giant.
"You could build a news reader that only includes posts with links to news sites and automatically loads those links in a nice reading interface. You could build a content moderation tool that any fediverse app could use to filter and manage content on their platform. You could build the perfect algorithm that only up-ranks shitposts and good jokes, and license that algorithm to any app that wants... 'Epic Posts Only'..."
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
"This is the same opportunity in front of the social media landscape right now: a rare chance to unbundle the internet, to pull apart an existing system and rebuild it, piece by piece, in vastly better ways. If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers — there won’t be a new titanic company to rival Meta or a platform with eye-poppingly huge numbers like Facebook."
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub