The 'Fediverse' — an old key to a new internet?

Thank you Elon Musk. No, really. Thanks to your rash and toxic performance as (resigning?) CEO of Twitter, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have started looking for alternative ways to be social on the internet without falling prey to your whims or tantrums.

Rehearsing once again your messy career in detail here makes little sense and would also lead us away from the essentials. But we need to talk about one decision.

In mid-January, Twitter announced, via its ow...