On the social web, you don’t have to “pack up your whole life” to have an experience somewhere else. Evan Prodromou, Co-author, ActivityPub and Research Director, Social Web Foundation, dives into the AOL analogy and how it applies to the open web in a positive way.

This clip is from the “Fediverse Corner” conversation moderated by David Imel, Co-Host of the Waveform Podcast, at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025. Other panel participants included Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder, Techdirt, and Board of Directors, Bluesky, and Peter Cottle, Software Engineer, Threads.

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