A group of tech-savvy journalists—PJ Vogt, Casey Newton, and Kevin Roose—embark on an ambitious experiment to build their own social media platform, the Forkiverse, on the Fediverse, a decentralized alternative to today’s corporate-dominated internet. Their goal: test whether a healthier,
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