Bluesky
Last Month in Bluesky - June 2024
Starter packs, labelers calling it quits, and a federated link-aggregator on atproto.
Laurens Hof
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 75
Threads expands their fediverse connections, a place for musicians on the fediverse with Bandwagon, and more.
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 74
More news about Ghosts' work on ActivityPub, statistics of Mastodon show the massive diversity in software ecosystem that happens when you have a fully open API, and much more.
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 73 (and 72)
New papers, plugins for fediverse software and scraping drama.
Bluesky
Last Month in Bluesky - May 2024
Jack Dorsey leaves the board of Bluesky, DMs have arrived, and much more.
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 71
IFTAS launches a moderator community with IFTAS Connect. Canadian House of Commons is presented with a petition to work with open and federated social media.
Slices
What is Farcaster, and why did it raise 150M USD?
Farcaster, a crypto-based decentralised social networking protocol hit the news this week, by raising an eye watering 150 million USD, with a valuation of 1 billion USD, all the while sporting around 80K daily active users. For context, Bluesky has around 300k daily active users. The news raises a few
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 70
A report on how The Verge and 404 Media are preparing to add federation to their sites. A single feed for Nostr and Mastodon with Openvibe. A 10k USD seed funding for building DeviantArt on top of ActivityPub.
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 69
Happy 16th birthday of the fediverse! 16 years ago, on May 18th 2008, the first post was published on identi.ca. The News The European Commission has announced their new Mastodon account, and that they will stay on the fediverse. Over the last 2 years, the European Data Protection Supervisor
Bluesky
Video, audio and blogging: Japanese Bluesky is building in the ATmosphere
Three new products for the ATmosphere by Japanese developers: Video platform Bluemotion, Blogging with WhiteWind, and audio spaces with Bluecast.
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 68
An update on fediverse and Bluesky bridges, Ghost shares info on their new ActivityPub reader app, and more.
Last week
Last Week in Fediverse - ep 67
Bridge to Bluesky silently launches to significant interest. New features for PeerTube. Increased federation between the forums, WordPress and Lemmy.