Ghost’s John O’Nolan and WordPress’s Matthias Pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers.”

Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their work, their audience, and their livelihood. No one knows this better than Molly White, a researcher, writer and software engineer. This episode was recorded live at SXSW 2025.

Built on the AT Protocol, Blacksky isn’t tethered to the Bluesky app or team. Founder Rudy Fraser is carving out an independent, replicable model—one made possible by the openness of a decentralized web.

Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025, author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow breaks down the concept of “enshittification” and explores how we can challenge tech monopolies through interoperability, regulation, and open standards.

Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW '25, Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee explains how the company, powered by the AT Protocol, is rethinking the internet’s architecture to create a more flexible, user-centric web.

Chris Messina goes wide to explain where this next 20-year cycle of the internet is taking us. From the community-organzing power of the hashtag to decentralization and the massive shifts ignited by AI, he threads the needle on it all.

Chris is an early adopter who makes smart observations and has a 10,000-foot view of all the innovation happening on the open social web — not to mention a few ideas of his own.

When it comes to the wellbeing of the fediverse, Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi are big thinkers, tireless researchers, community practitioners, and thoughtful human beings.

Newsrooms need to build direct relationships with their communities, and the fediverse is one way to do this. Hear from two men at the forefront of the future of publishing.

Bluesky founder and CEO Jay Graber illustrates what it looks like to free our social identities from large walled gardens and leverage open source software for a better internet.

The fediverse represents an opportunity to rethink how trust and safety works in social media. But how, and what should we still be worried about? Two experts — the Executive Director of IFTAS and a co-author of a seminal paper — explain.

Ghost founder and CEO John O’Nolan wants to build a tech company that plays by different rules. Learn how ActivityPub is enabling a publishing platform with sustainability at its core.

Molly White is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but she’s anything but cynical. The force behind the Citation Needed newsletter and Web3IsGoingGreat shares her thoughts on how the social web is transforming our lives, why everyone should be a blogger, and how the concept of digital ownership is changing before our eyes.

Ryan Barrett opened a new chapter for the Fediverse. His work to bridge Bluesky and Mastodon inflamed passions about what decentralized social media should be and for whom.

Threads’ presence in the fediverse has been the elephant in the room since it was announced last July. Now that it’s actually happening, there is as much skepticism as excitement. Why is Threads doing this?

Entrepreneur and FediForum co-founder Johannes Ernst has a 10,000-foot view of how the fediverse is evolving and what needs to be done next.

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine has said that Mastodon is “an emerging force for good in social media.” Hear why he believes that, what’s wrong with the attention economy, and why it’s an exciting time for creators and entrepreneurs.

The author of the quarterly Twitter Migration report (and indieweb.social admin) shares his expertise on thorny issues, including the exodus from X, navigating disinformation, and why moderation is better in a decentralized world.

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko leads a ‘hero’s journey’ to create a better social media experience for us all. But how will Threads entering the Fediverse change the landscape?

Author, entrepreneur and co-founder of WIRED John Battelle says we must get over the “extraordinary inertia” of the Internet we’ve built. Learn how federation could be the answer, from someone who’s been tracking this space for over 30 years.