Dot Social

There was a time where people couldn’t email each other unless they were using the same email client. That changed when developers came up with a protocol that made it so it didn’t matter if you were using AOL or CompuServe or Prodigy — it just worked.  The same analogy explains how things work in the Fediverse , an open-source system of interconnected, interoperable social networks. The Fediverse...

In the 1990s, we saw an acceleration from walled gardens like America Online to the open web. This marked an era of exciting innovation and meteoric growth. But, over time, we witnessed the rise of a new set of walled gardens: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc. Is history about to repeat itself? Will the open social web become a mainstream alternative to the walled gardens we live...