Martin Holland<p>In the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>newyorktimes</span></a></span>: 👏🏼</p><p>"<a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> has also led to a wave of start-up efforts such as <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>, a microblogging service that now has more than 14 million accounts connected by a network of over 14,000 host computers, as well as start-ups like <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> and <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/PeerTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeerTube</span></a>, distributed services that offer features similar to <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> and <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a>."</p><p>A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html</span></a></p>