Who's creating the next Internet?

The moment you assume someone creates it, you have a problem. It has to arise organically out of the individual actions of all of us.

I think of the "fediverse" as an example of this. It's usually defined as the ecosystem around the ActivityPub protocol (i.e. Mastodon, Lemmy, etc) but I think it should be redefined more broadly to mean "the ecosystem of federated/decentralised publishing and interaction", which would include ActivityPub but also blogs, websites, email, RSS, ATproto. If we really have a fedi-verse, then it can't be controlled by one entity.

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ezekg 2 days ago | parent [-]

> the ecosystem of federated/decentralised publishing and interaction

That is what I meant, yes. People built the internet, and people will build the next internet, too. I was wondering who's already doing that.

	▲	cowlevel 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's lacking a search engine.

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dmantis 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

To be honest, I don't really get the question.

Do you assume there should be some single big guy who creates the social spaces?

	▲	ezekg 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sorry, it was a loaded question. I was more asking who's working on the foundation for this next phase of the internet. Who's working on decentralized reputational/vouch systems? Who's working on zero-trust proof-of-authorship or proof-of-being? Who's working on privacy-focused proof-of-identity? etc.
	▲	Exoristos 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"Who" is also plural in English.