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  Mia Quagliarello

  

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  One Year of the Dot Social Podcast About the Fediverse

  Inside Flipboard - Mia Quagliarello

  We have one more episode coming out in 2024, with Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi, so make sure you subscribe to the Dot Social podcast via our PeerTube or YouTube channels, or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. In the meantime, we made some YouTube Shorts from five noteworthy episodes so …

• Savvy journalists at forward-thinking newsrooms 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 audiences. Hear from two people working for publishers at the forefront of this movement. #fediverse #podcast #404media #propublica

  

  Mia Quagliarello

  

  How Decentralization Benefits Publishers, with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller

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  It’s tough being a media outlet these days. Audiences are fractured, referrals from search engines are dropping, and publishers are at the mercy of algorithms they don’t control. Savvy journalists at forward-thinking newsrooms are not letting this happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that …

• Bluesky founder and CEO Jay Graber says social media is stagnating because "we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out." She talked to Flipboard's Mike McCue 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. #bluesky #fediverse

  

  Mia Quagliarello

  

  Make Identity Central Again, with Bluesky’s Jay Graber

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  There’s a reason journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick calls the platform “the most interesting experiment going in social media.” Originally launched as a project within Twitter in 2019, Bluesky has since become an independent company intent on making social more like the web. What does …

• New #podcast episode out today #fediverse

  

  Mia Quagliarello

  

  Rethinking Trust and Safety in the Fediverse, with Samantha Lai and Jaz-Michael King - Flipboard

  Inside Flipboard - Mia Quagliarello

  The fediverse offers an opportunity to rethink how trust and safety works in social media. In a decentralized environment, creating safe and welcoming places relies on community moderation, transparent governance, and innovation in tooling. No longer is one company making — and enforcing — its own …

• Don't miss a new episode of #DotSocial -- the first podcast about the #fediverse, hosted by Flipboard's own Mike McCue. This one is essential listening for creators. #ghost #publishing #newsletters

  

  Mia Quagliarello

  

  This Publishing Platform Sees the Future, with Ghost’s John O’Nolan

  Inside Flipboard - Mia Quagliarello

  John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, calls himself “the inverse Peter Thiel.” That’s because he wants to build a tech company that bucks the usual narratives, with as few monopolies as possible. His open-source publishing platform is structured as a nonprofit and is integrating with the …

• #dotsocial #podcast #fediverse #decentralization

  

  Mia Quagliarello

  

  Entering a New Phase of the Web, with Citation Needed’s Molly White

  Inside Flipboard - Mia Quagliarello

  Molly White is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical. In fact, this researcher, writer and software engineer cares so deeply about free and open access to high-quality information that she’s been a Wikipedia editor since she was a …