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Mastodon, ActivityPub, the Fediverse and how standards actually work on the internet.

This is a great article from Ars Technica that explains how a bunch of published and defacto standards come together – more or less – to make Mastodon go and create a decentralized social web.

Mastodon for Fun and Profit: The Fediverse for Brands

Twitter and Facebook appear to be in trouble. Twitter has been hemorrhaging users, with the Elon deal as a tipping point. Facebook just laid off thousands in an effort to re-focus on their core business and improve profitability. In light of that, and the sudden traction of Mastodon and the Fediverse, I started thinking aboutContinue reading “Mastodon for Fun and Profit: The Fediverse for Brands”

Is the open internet dead?

I was fortunate enough to get online in the mid-90’s. I wrote some terrible software to configure Dial Up Networking in Windows 3.1, and then sold it to a local ISP for years of free access. At that point, consumers were rapidly adopting what I’ll call “open” technologies, including email, forums (USENET), messaging (IRC) and file transferContinue reading “Is the open internet dead?”