On Monday afternoon at SXSW, @pluralistic will be in conversation with @mike about building sustainable open networks that (hopefully) ward off “enshittification.” (We'll be recording this one for a future episode of the @dot_social podcast.)

RSVP: https://lu.ma/k5meba69

@mike's Dot Social podcast comes to Austin this weekend, where he’ll record an episode with Waveform Podcast co-host @davidimel. If you’re local, you can hear it before anyone else by stopping by the Fediverse House. RSVP: https://lu.ma/cnr8fi3j

#FediverseHouse #fediverse #podcasting #podcast #DotSocial #austin #AustinTX #sxsw #sxsw2025

@mike’s Dot Social podcast comes to Austin this weekend, where he’ll record an episode with Waveform Podcast co-host @davidimel. If you’re local, you can hear it before anyone else by stopping by the Fediverse House.

RSVP: https://lu.ma/xbve5fa0

For us, 2024 was a year of building on the social web.
Expanded federation in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Germany, and the U.K.
Enabled following accounts from the social web in the Flipboard app.
Announced @surf, a new browser for the social web.
Produced new episodes of Dot Social, the fediverse podcast hosted by @mike

Thanks for being on this journey with us!

Did you do cool stuff in the fediverse this year? Tell us all about it in the comments, where we'll also link to the Dot Social PeerTube account and our Surf signup page.

The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.

Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/

Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.

404 Media's @jasonkoebler and ProPublica's @ben are discussing how the #fediverse helps #publishers in the latest episode of @mike's #DotSocial podcast. Highly recommended.

This struck me particularly:

Ben is making the case that the Fediverse is the means by which publishers can re-take the initiative with technology instead of simply having to live with whatever the platforms decide. That is powerful stuff!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/

Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.

Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/

Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Bluesky founder and CEO @jay.bsky.team says social media is stagnating because "we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out." She talked to @mike for the Dot Social podcast about building a healthier internet, how Elon impacted Bluesky's trajectory, innovating on social identity, and how different protocols can come together.

Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jay-graber/

Watch the video and listen to the podcast on PeerTube here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://flipboard.video/w/ophhJTECuL7fcBNbUitV3q

Discover past interviews here: https://flipboard.com/@mike/dot-social-the-future-of-the-social-web-3r0pl8ge5dju9965

New episode out today #fediverse #dotsocial #bluesky #mastodon #activitypub

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ryan-barrett/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building #Threads. That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/

If you enjoyed listening to @mike on DotSocial and want some more tech talk in your eyes and ears, here’s a FollowFriday featuring the hosts of podcasts that specialize in technology. Drop your recommendations in the comments!

@alex — co-host of Moderated Content

@alexcox, @mrssoup — co-hosts of Roboism

@ant_pruitt – host of Total Ant

@caseyliss, @marcoarment, @siracusa — co-hosts of @atpfm

@caseynewton — co-host of Hard Fork

@davidpierce— co-host of The Vergecast

@evelyndouek — co-host of Moderated Content

@HilliTech — host of AppleInsider Podcast

@imyke, @jsnell — co-hosts of @upgrade

@kjaymiller — co-host of Conduit podcast

@laurengoode — host of WIRED’s Gadget Lab

@leo— founder of the TWiT Podcast Network

@majorlinux, @synxiec, @kevikevshow — co-hosts of Tech Talk Thursdays

@rosemary — co-host of Automators podcast

@stephenrobles — podcasts about Apple, tech how-tos and device reviews

@viticci, @ismh — co-hosts of @connected

Flipboard CEO @mike interviewed leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement for the Dot Social podcast. Here's how to follow everyone he spoke to.

@coachtony — Medium CEO

@cubicgarden — Senior Firestarter at BBC RD

@evan — co-author of ActivityPub

@Gargron — Mastodon founder

@Jbat — author, WIRED co-founder

@mmasnick — Techdirt founder

@tchambers — Twitter Migration author, server admin of indieweb.social