Oct 21, 2025 · 55 min · 10 segments
As you know, we talk a lot about decentralization and protocols over platforms. When it comes to decentralized social media in particular, one person who has been working on it since the earliest days…
Evan Henshaw-PlathGuest
Mike MasnickHost
So, um, you know, I, I left and moved across the street and went and worked with the Flickr teams at Yahoo Brickhouse and built this thing called Fire Eagle.
It was supposed to be a location broker thing, but was connected to the Twitter folks.
And so the next step was saying, well, what if we could scale this more API thing?
And so Blaine at a food camp got together and said, well, how do we scale this? Right.
And we had this idea that we couldn't scale it with normal web technology.
And so we built this decentralized federated protocol on top of the Jabber protocol, XMPP.
And then Jeremy Miller, the creator of XMPP, who is on the board of Blue Sky with you.
So, um, you know, I, I left and moved across the street and went and worked with the Flickr teams at Yahoo Brickhouse and built this thing called Fire Eagle.
It was supposed to be a location broker thing, but was connected to the Twitter folks.
And so the next step was saying, well, what if we could scale this more API thing?
And so Blaine at a food camp got together and said, well, how do we scale this? Right.
And we had this idea that we couldn't scale it with normal web technology.
And so we built this decentralized federated protocol on top of the Jabber protocol, XMPP.
And then Jeremy Miller, the creator of XMPP, who is on the board of Blue Sky with you.
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