16: Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub breaks down decentralized social networks and the Fediverse, how this affects monetization for walled gardens, and why users need data portability

This week's guest: Evan Prodromou Evan is one of the co-editors of ActivityPub and has spent more than 15 years working on distributed social network protocols. He ran an open-source social project called StatusNet, formerly chaired the W3C working group on Social Web standards, and is now the Director of Open Technology at Open Earth, where he builds digital architecture to scale climate action.   Fediverse account: https://cosocial.ca/@evan ActivityPub: https://activitypub.rocks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanpro LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanprodromou/  OpenEarth Foundation: https://www.openearth.org/about