In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Evan Prodromou, often called “the father of the Fediverse.” Evan helped build early Fediverse projects including Wikitravel, Identi.ca and StatusNet, and helped develop ActivityPub, the protocol that lets Fediverse platforms such as Mastodon, PeerTube and Pixelfed talk to each other. Like WordPress, the Fediverse is mostly open source and lets you own your content instead of handing it to corporate algorithms. We talk about how the Fediverse began and grew, Meta’s Threads, commercial interest in the network, and how the WordPress community can get more involved.
People in this episode
- Steve Burge
- Evan Prodromou