“What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture.” +1. Worth noting that the early Web was also nurtured by “countercultural” types — eg hippies on The Well who went on to found Wired, etc. I even mentioned this today in my post about IUMA in 1994: “Like much of the early Web, it had an anti-establishment feel — one of its goals was to create a distribution alternative to record labels.”

Cybercultural

Internet Underground Music Archive in 1994

By early 1994, the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) has migrated from Usenet and Gopher to the emerging internet platform, the World Wide ...

Mastodon

Connected Places (@fediversereport@mastodon.social)

New: Fediverse Report # 103 This week I wrote about #fediverse as a countercultural place for pop culture, and how that affects goals to bring the...