![]() ![]() Today I’m talking to Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace, the ubiquitous web hosting and design company. Our Editorial Director is Brooke Minters and our Executive Director is Eleanor Donovan. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. It was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. ![]() We tried to run a social media site and it was awful | Financial TimesĬan ActivityPub save the internet? - The Vergeįive reasons Threads could still go the distance - The Vergeĭecoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse - The Verge More than two million users have flocked to Mastodon since Elon Musk took over Twitter - The VergeĪ beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the hot new open-source Twitter clone - The VergeĮrase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle? - The Verge Before we jump into the interview with Rochko, I spoke with David to help update everyone on what ActivityPub even is, and what it could mean for the future of social media. Verge Editor-at-Large David Pierce has been covering all this very closely. Bluesky, on a competing protocol, is picking up steam and Threads promises to decentralize in the future, using the same ActivityPub protocol as Mastodon. Mastodon got a head start as the most well-known of the rising decentralized social networks, but that’s changing fast. That makes this the perfect time to dig into the Decoder archives to hear what Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko thinks about the future of social media. And I think that that just goes against the sense that we have in this country that people should have equal opportunity.ActivityPub is back in the news, thanks to Meta’s Threads launch and Elon’s continued immolation of Twitter - now X. And basically some of the research that he’s done shows that the zip code in which you were born and raised is highly correlated with your future mobility and what your income is going to be. And one of the people I think has done the most interesting research on this is this guy, Raj Chetty, I think he’s at Harvard now. One of the big issues today in society is inequality. I also think it is really important for economic opportunity. I think that that’s probably quite compelling and positive. ![]() Not just in the sense that a version of me growing up today wouldn’t be stuck playing Little League, that I’d get to find people who are interested in the same things, so I could explore coding and have a much more vibrant community around that, or surfing, or whatever the thing is that you’re interested in. I think one of the things that is most magical about the present, and that I think is going to get even more so, is that flattening out distance creates a lot more opportunities for people. And in VR, people can pull up as many screens as they want so you can share as much context as you want during a meeting. So it’s no more of this, “Oh, I can only share one document at a time,” because everyone, you presume, only has one screen. You can project and different people can share as many documents as they want. You look over to the head of the table and there could be a screen there, where people who can’t be in VR or AR can videoconference in and be a part of your meeting from outside. If you’re sitting in a circle, everyone can kind of remember what order people were in. So if someone is sitting to your right, you’re sitting to their left. Even though the avatars aren’t as realistic today as they will be in a few years, in a lot of ways it already feels almost more real, and more like you have a sense of space, than a Zoom call, because you have the shared sense of space. And I already do a bunch of meetings in VR. The other area that I think is going to be pretty exciting is basically doing meetings. ![]()
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