“Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms,” Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko said in an interview for TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. “And people should be able to choose freely between ...

Vitalik Buterin pledges full commitment to decentralized social platforms in 2026, condemning speculative tokens while praising Lens protocol.

Billionaire Mark Cuban backing a startup is not, on its own, a big story. He’s done it hundreds of times. But I was interested in this particular investment highlighted by Sarah Perez in TechCrunch: ...

Farcaster, a decentralized social media protocol built on Ethereum and Optimism has been acquired by Neynar, a developer tools company linked to the Web3 space, following its peak valuation of around ...

Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of the upstart social-media platform Bluesky, arrived in San Francisco the Sunday after Donald Trump’s reëlection and holed up in a hotel room. She’d spent the previous days ...

Utah State Capitol Building overlooks Salt Lake City skyline. Access to online services is as fundamental to modern life as electricity or water. And just as we expect our electricity to be reliable ...

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If our traditional media landscape featured only a couple of outlets that each flouted the public interest, we would not think twice about using every available tool to foster media pluralism. There ...