flâneur

POSSE: a better way to post on social networks - The Verge

theverge.com · 2,523 words · saved by 2 readers

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. For the last two decades, our social networking and social media platforms have been universes unto themselves. Each has its own social graph, charting who you follow and who follows you. Each has its own feed, its own algorithms, its own apps, and its own user interfaces (though they’ve all pretty much landed on the same aesthetics over time). Each also has its own publishing tools, its own character limits, its own image filters. Being online means constantly flitting between these places and their ever-shifting sets of rules and norms. Now, though, we may be at the beginning of a new era. Instead of a half-dozen platforms competing to own your entire life, apps like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and others are building a more interconnected social ecosystem. If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it w

Vergecast Vergecast Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Vergecast Podcasts Podcasts Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Podcasts Tech Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Tech The poster’s guide to the internet of the future The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. by David Pierce David Pierce

saved by

related reading