David Pierce writes: “At some point over the last year, you’ve probably come across the term fediverse a few times. The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you. It’s all based on a decades-old idea about how the internet should work.”