What would happen if Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube cooperated with each other? What would it be like if we lived in a world where where you could use your account on one platform to like, comment and share posts from any other?

I’m not talking about merely sharing a link from one platform to another, either, where interactions were siloed off from each other.

No, what if you could leave a comment on a Facebook post for this video and that comment would automatically appear in the comments section of this video.

Well, that already kinda exists. The Fediverse, you might have heard of it. From Mastodon to Peertube and more—it’s is a collection of different services that are all working together to form an interconnected universe of applications. It sounds unbelievable, but it’s here today.

It wrests control of the web out of the hands of corporate oligarchs and digital tycoons and returns that power to where it belongs: us.

I’ve spent the entirety of 2024 working on the Fediverse and I’ve learned a lot. See, I started mirroring these videos over on my Peertube instance: https://subscribeto.me/ and it’s sucked me. I’ve gone down this rabbit hole of discovery. I’ve passed through the looking glass. I’ve seen the promised land. And now, I want to share this with you.

So in this video, I want to take a moment to explore 5 of the most important lessons I’ve learned and why I’m now betting the future of my company on this amazing technology that we call “The Fediverse.”

00:00 What if we lived in a cooperative online world?
01:33 What is an "instance?"
02:11 #5 - Netiquette was not a fluke
04:49 #4 - Kindness is King
06:44 #3 - It's not a Social Network
08:06 #2 - The Fediverse is boring (complement)
11:04 #1 - Viral Memes as Bioweapons
12:59 Social Media is the enemy of humanity
13:36 What the Fediverse truly is