Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Meta’s Threads, Mastodon, and X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter —...
25 Mar 20241h 10min
How Europe’s Digital Markets Act is reshaping Big Tech
Both the EU and US have spent the past decade looking at Big Tech and saying, "someone should do something!" In the US, lawmakers are still basically shouting that. But in the EU, regulators did somet...
21 Mar 202432min
Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about the future and AI
We’ve got a fun one today — I talked to Figma CEO Dylan Field in front of a live audience at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. And we got into it – we talked about everything from design, to softwa...
18 Mar 202453min
Why Google Search feels like it’s gotten worse
If you’ve been listening to Decoder or the Vergecast for a while, you know that I am obsessed with Google Search, the web, and how both of those things might change in the age of AI. But to really und...
14 Mar 202439min
How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka
Today, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The Verge, and author of the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Kyle has been writin...
11 Mar 20241h 7min
Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots
Our Thursday episodes are all about big topics in the news, and this week we’re wrapping up our short series on one of the biggest topics of all: generative AI. In our last couple episodes, we talked ...
7 Mar 202440min
Guest host Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future
On this special episode of Decoder, science educator and YouTuber Hank Green is guest hosting. And the guest? It’s Nilay Patel, who sat down with Hank to discuss building The Verge, the state of media...
4 Mar 20241h 3min
AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
Our new Thursday episodes of Decoder are all about deep dives into big topics in the news, and this week we’re continuing our mini-series on one of the biggest topics of all: generative AI. Last week,...
29 Feb 202441min
