In contrast, McCue sees Mastodon and the Fediverse as an antidote to the Musk-induced chaos. He believes that decentralized social networking protocols like ActivityPub will allow communities of people to interact with each other without being dictated to by one person or platform.
While there are still questions about whether Mastodon will ever be more than a niche Twitter alternative, McCue predicts that other mainstream services may start looking at Mastodon more strategically as well. He believes that companies like Flipboard will start to integrate ActivityPub and advocate to publishers and content creators to build a presence in the Fediverse, leading to a “Netscape moment” for the decentralized social networking protocols.
