Meta just agreed to pay $18 billion to settle claims that it knowingly harmed children on Instagram and Facebook. The number is staggering, but the detail that stuck with us was smaller: a former Meta researcher testified that when his team pushed to turn a teen safety feature on by default, his manager told…
The internet wasn’t always walled gardens. Before Facebook and Instagram consolidated everythingunder one roof, the web was a collection of independent servers that talked to each other usingshared protocols — email being the most durable example. The Fediverse is an attempt to bring thatmodel to social media: thousands of independently-run servers, each with their…
Photo by Ryunosuke Kikuno on Unsplash We are rolling out our alpha-release soon, and are very busy preparing for that in addition to our day jobs. Pending support and interest, we will revisit this section just as soon as we catch our breath from all the sprints!
Modern social media is a world-spanning megaphone rather than town square, let alone a gathering of family and friends. It is also a data sink that wants to funnel your personal details and experience into some VC- or shareholder-controlled data plane, where each platform scrapes it and tries to get you and your friends…