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Back in November, I wrote an essay that explored the significance of services like Bridgy Fed, a protocol-level bridge that connects open social platforms. Since then, Ryan Barrett, the builder behind Bridgy Fed, and I have started A New Social: a nonprofit focused on building more cross-protocol tools like the| augment
Hey there! It's good to be back on the blog. Over the past few months, I've been focused on setting up the foundations for A New Social. I couldn't have imagined this is where I'd end up after writing my Bridges & The Last Network Effect post, but here we are!| augment
© Roman Eisele / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsWe're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries| augment
Human-Generated Content #8| augment
Hi folks! Phew, it's been a while, hasn't it? I hope everyone is doing well, and hello to all my new subscribers! The last month has been busy, to say the least, and I wanted to give a few updates on what I've been| augment
"User-generated content continues to be tremendously undervalued by the platforms that distribute user-generated content" - John Green The vlogbrothers have entered the conversation about the future of human-generated content, and you already know that I had to talk about it. Hi there! In this issue, we'll be diving into a| augment
Human Generated Content: Issue 6| augment
Today, I want to expand on a topic I discussed in issue #2: publishers striking deals with AI companies and what that means for their futures and the publisher landscape as a whole.| augment
It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation. While still in its infancy, the team has quickly added features that present itself as a viable alternative to its contemporaries, the most important being a TweetDeck-like desktop UI. But there seems to| augment
Culture is either being erased or regurgitated back at us, and the people who created and recorded it have none of the power to stop it from happening.| augment
"My goal for the next issue is to not talk about the Fediverse." That was me in the last issue of Human-Generated Content and I would like to start by apologizing for this very predictable lie. Hello, again! Last time, we talked about the diverging strategies between publishers choosing AI| augment
Publishers are seeing two very different futures for their businesses. Is the future of media aggregated and summarized or is it direct-to-audience?| augment
Patreon needs to become Threads before Threads become Patreon.| augment
This issue: Nilay Patel talks to Google's Sundar Pichai on AI, chriswaves and Mike Masnick each explore the managed decline of the web, and Molly White and Mike McCue chat about building a new web inspired by the old one.| augment
Ghost's Fediverse integration will have larger implications for the newsletter landscape. Namely, I think this will eventually bring the slow death of another social silo: Substack.| augment
I think Post's greatest miss was not interoperating with complementary products like Flipboard, Artifact, WordPress, Medium, and Ghost to build out a cross-platform network of creators, curators, and consumers.| augment
This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations.| augment
