Hey look, itās my first piece for Rolling Stone! (Thanks @noahshachtman) And I meant every word ā I believe weāre seeing the renaissance of the weird, human internet. It couldnāt come a moment too soon. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
@anildash Iām not sure I love the Xanga/LiveJournal analogy.
Itās more like AOL and CompuServe were to the open web as Twitter and Bluesky are to ActivityPub.
I donāt see Mastodon as āthe choice for nerdsā any more than the open web had a specific audience.
The promise of Mastodon and ActivityPub is that these different audiences and communities will be able to interact on the same terms.