"Chris, you're too optimistic about the Fediverse," some people tell me.

No, no, no!

I was too optimistic about Twitter and Web 2.0. I put so much of my life into that -- and I watched it crash and burn.

Now with the Fediverse, I'm being practical and relentless.

I have clear goals in mind, and how to get from Point "A" to Point "B".

Specifically, one thing that attracts me to the Fediverse is that it attacks Twitter existentially.

This isn't a matter of Twitter copying Clubhouse, and putting it into their platform.

Twitter can't do that with the Fediverse's main feature (de-centralized federation) because that would destroy their reason to exist.

And to be sure, Twitter's reason to exist is to centralize and private the public square.

Twitter can neither duplicate nor join the Fediverse.

If you want to destroy Big Social, you have to popularize features, functions, and ideas that challenge their reason to exist.

Big Social exists for privatization and centralization of your data!

What they aim for is no less than ownership of your LIFE!

They have been practical and relentless in their pursuit.

We likewise need to be practical and relentless in attacking their reason to exist.

Neither Twitter, Meta, nor TikTok can compete with the Fediverse on its core featureset.

They won't de-centralize. They can't de-centralize.

If they were to de-centralize, they would no longer be Big Social.