The other secret way to follow Secret Breakfast

Use the fediverse, the most beautiful part of the internet many don't know yet.There's a way to follow this newsletter that most of you don't know exists. It doesn't require a new inbox. It doesn't require another subscription. And it puts you in control of what you read, for once.It's called the fediverse. And you already understand it.Think about email for a second. You have a Gmail address. Your friend uses iCloud. Your colleague is on a company server somewhere in Frankfurt. Different services, different apps, different providers. And yet, you write to each other without thinking about it.Nobody asks: "are you on Gmail too?" You just send the email.The fediverse works the same way.A network of networksThe fediverse is a collection of social platforms that can talk to each other. Mastodon, Pixelfed, Flipboard, PeerTube: they all speak the same underlying language, called ActivityPub.Your account lives on one platform. Someone else's lives on another. You follow each other…