Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse (Katie Notopoulos/MIT Technology Review)

Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse (Katie Notopoulos/MIT Technology Review)

Katie Notopoulos / MIT Technology Review:
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse  —  We’re in a very strange moment for the internet.  We all know it’s broken.  That’s not news.