Laurens Hof - Connected Places (Page 16)

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The Roundup - episode 17

A crypto spam wave, Blue skies, and so much more news is happening.

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Transit alerts are in the news

Large news outlets like CNN and The Verge have been talking a lot about transit notifications not being available on Twitter anymore. I take a deeper look at what is happening with transit from the perspective of the fediverse, and talk to a developer who has build a notification system for it.

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Fediverse 201: Owncast

Owncast is a selfhosted streaming service that connects to the fediverse. I take a look at how this works, and talk with the creator Gabe Kangas.

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The Roundup - episode 16

Bridges between Bluesky and the fediverse, new tools, admin drama, interviews, and so much more!

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The Roundup - episode 15

Tons on news this week! ActivityPub gets a major spotlight, Misskey is rapidly growing, Flipboard is expanding further into the fediverse, and so much more!

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A next generation of follow-finders

People have been building different tools to help find interesting accounts to follow for a while now. Recently, multiple new follow-finders tools have been launched. I take a look at each of them, as well as some historic context.

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The Roundup - episode 14

11 million Mastodon accounts, the first Fediverse Developer Network meeting, lots of talk about news organisations that should join the fediverse, and much more!

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News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse

The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.