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 I just love that when something new coming out, someone’s take is always “we can also monetize it”, and how you talk about decentralization and user owned content then immediately talk about creating filtering algorithms on this platform. “Hey look these people didn’t even realized that we can make money from it! ”