Very interesting interview with one of the original builders of Twitter, who pushed as far back as 2008 for federated concepts.
“We’ve got Mastodon, it’s a piece of software that provides certain functionality, but I think the fediverse and the affordances that gives us is so much bigger than just Mastodon. And so the thing that I’m really excited about right now is, now that we’re at this more developed starting point, seeing what people build on top of it...”
https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/