Great article from David Pierce at The Verge about the potential of the fediverse:
"Forget the hand-wavy protocol stuff for a second — one of the best things about embracing ActivityPub is that it sticks a crowbar into a single Voltron-ic product like Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat and pries it apart into its component pieces, each one ripe for innovation and new ideas."
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub