Over the course of 2023, I became totally radicalized by the fediverse's potential to improve just about everything about our online lives. I wrote about why — and what it'll take to get there: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
Here’s why the fediverse is the future of social networks, and the web

Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, and other platforms are promising a new social web, powered by ActivityPub and out of the control of any single company.

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@davidpierce
Interesting article.
It also mentions farcaster - something I've not heard of before: https://www.farcaster.xyz/ which I will be investigating soon!
Farcaster

A protocol for building sufficiently decentralized social networks