"I was there for the first-ever Protocols for Publishers showcase, the opening event of a two-day session that brought together people from the journalism and tech worlds to talk about the future of the internet. It was sponsored and hosted by three tech initiatives - Unternet, Graze, and Free Our Feeds - and motivated by a central question: how do we build an internet that works for publishers, rather than making them work for the internet (and the tech companies that control it)?"
""We are in a moment of epistemic fracture," said Ivan Sigal, interim director of Free Our Feeds. The information ecosystem has fractured, he said, and it's becoming increasingly fractured as the internet becomes flooded by and oriented around AI. "Silicon Valley seems to be leaving the space of consumer-focused social media," he continued, which means that "we need to build out systems that will serve us in the long term.""
The Peak Design Everyday Backpack carried a laptop, camera, lenses, and audio equipment while also functioning as an everyday pack for lighter travel. Shared backpacks signaled the presence of journalists and engineers at a Chelsea event. The Protocols for Publishers showcase convened a two-day session bringing people from journalism and tech to consider building an internet that supports publishers instead of forcing publishers to adapt to platforms controlled by tech companies. Participants expressed strong interest in the federated internet and the AT Protocol, which underpins Bluesky and apps like Flashes. Ivan Sigal described an accelerating epistemic fracture as AI floods the information ecosystem and argued that Silicon Valley is retreating from consumer social media, creating urgency to build durable systems that serve publishers in the long term.
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