Last week
Three stories that all relate to governance, in their own different ways. Mbin is a new fork of Kbin, due to governance issues at Kbin. A research paper on that gives some structure to how different Mastodon servers organise their rules. And Owncast runs into issues with how Apple governs access to
Last week
Free wordpress.com accounts can now connect to the fediverse. Questions about server ownership. A new update on the Twittermigration.
Last week
An update to the last month over at Bluesky. Mastodon releases their annual report.
Bluesky
September* has proven to be a period of growth and expansion for Bluesky and the ATproto network, in a variety of ways. On September 12, Bluesky hit the milestone of 1 million registered accounts on the service. Bluesky has managed to grow consistently since it started in January of this
Last week
Mark Zuckerberg talks about Threads, with implications for the fediverse. Fediseer is a new take on sharing information about server blocks. Tying some trends about Germans and social networks together.
Slices
Mark Zuckerberg recently gave an interview with The Verge, in which he made a variety of comments on Threads and ActivityPub. In this article I take a look at what this says about his vision on Threads, the fediverse, and more.
Last week
Interesting discussions at FediForum, search has arrived with Mastodon 4.2, new tools for safety on the fediverse.
Slices
Fediforum is a virtual unconference about the fediverse that saw the second edition this week. It showcased many demos, and interesting sessions. But to really move forward, the major projects need to be present as well.
Last week
The Swiss government joins the fediverse. How to organise the groups that are responsible for ActivityPub. Governance and Lemmy.
Last week
Postmarks is a new fediverse service, with social bookmarking. Switzerland is eyeing their own Mastodon server.
Last week
Lemmy is being attacked with CSAM, raising questions about the tools that moderators need. Social network Minds joins the fediverse. Stories is shipping to mobile on Pixelfed.
Bluesky
Tools like Clearsky allow you to find out who blocks you. New custom feeds in Bluesky. Spam networks are slowly being formed in the background.