Around the same time Mark Zuckerberg was creating Facebook, @ben — writer, founder, investor, and tech builder — was creating an open source social network.

Instead of becoming a billionaire, Ben set about building technology with the potential to make the world more informed and equal.

He describes in our latest newsletter what that decades-long journey has looked like, and where everything’s heading: AI, local journalism, the open social web, and more.

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/why-this-platform-is-for-everyone