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The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

How Mastodon was prepared for Elon Musk’s Twitter to fail.

Audio company reveals new details about its big plans for video

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

From the Beatles to One Direction — her new book on the history of fans

The company has lost three high-profile podcast leaders in the past month.

The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.

Seemingly overnight, there’s been a whole new version of the Web invented, dubbed “web3.” I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it online ...

We've got a crossposted episode for you this week: Mike recently joined The Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb O. Brown for a discussion about the "hacking" fiasco in Missouri and the state's treatment of the journalists who exposed its...

Tantalizingly close to a power user’s Google alternative.

We said earlier this month Twitter was just a few weeks away reinstating inbound SMS to UK mobile users - and now it's happening. By Robert Andrews

The Verge is a big thing that feels small; we’re going to keep it that way.

If you're a developer today, you likely take advantage of built in tools for web debugging every day. They came from the smallest places, and it took years to get them where they are today.

How the power-user web browser Vivaldi has managed to maintain a flexible design philosophy in an era when so much is decided for you online.

Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you’ll give it a look.