{"id":74887,"date":"2025-01-17T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/social-media-should-be-built-on-protocols-not-platforms-says-mastodons-ceo-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:45:57","slug":"social-media-should-be-built-on-protocols-not-platforms-says-mastodons-ceo-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/social-media-should-be-built-on-protocols-not-platforms-says-mastodons-ceo-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms,&#8217; says Mastodon&#8217;s CEO | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Meta announced changes to its content moderation policy, including the removal of third-party fact-checking across its apps in <!--more--> favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature, similar to X.<\/p>\n<p>Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan caught up with Eugen Rochko, CEO of Mastodon, to explore what these changes mean for users and how decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon could offer a viable alternative to mainstream giants like Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode to hear more about:<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  Mastodon\u2019s decision to transition to a non-profit in Europe<br \/>\n  \u2022  The challenges of implementing interoperability with platforms like TikTok &#8212; which is set to \u201cgo dark\u201d in the US over the weekend &#8212; and the importance of user choice.<br \/>\n  \u2022  Which other decentralized platforms we should keep an eye on. (Hint: Pixelfed is in the mix.)<\/p>\n<p>Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We&#8217;d also like to thank TechCrunch\u2019s audience development team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Meta announced changes to its content moderation policy, including the removal of third-party fact-checking across its apps in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}