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Mastodon has a reputation for a harboring a culture of 'reply guys'. There is a culture of high engagement and reactions on people's posts, which further alleviates the level and amount of replies that are annoying, irritating or demeaning. The account Mastodon Migration recently collected some
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Flipboard has already committed to decentralised social media a while ago, and is now taking the next steps in their commitment. The company announced yesterday that they will completely stop tweeting, and that they have launched a new podcast, Dot Social, about the 'open social web movement'. Flipboard
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Nivenly is the member-run co-operative that is also behind the Mastodon server Hachyderm.io, and supports various open source projects. They gave an update on projects and project applications, some of which are of specific relevance to the fediverse. Pachli is a Mastodon Android app, and a fork of the
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A roundup of the other news items of the week. For the full article, check here. * @Jpd23 has been writing an extensive blog series about safety and blocklists. I’ll write more about it once the series has finished, but it is already worth reading, and provides good context and
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Framasoft, the French non-profit organisation behind projects such as PeerTube and Mobilizon, has published their yearly report, titled 'Let's regain ground on the toxic web'. It details the work they have been doing over the last year, their future plans, as well as a donation drive.
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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.
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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.
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The term fediverse can mean multiple different things, with different boundaries of the network, depending on your frame and perspective. In this piece I take a look at the fediverse as a community, as an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, and as an interoperable social network.
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The NLnet foundation has played a significant role in the fediverse, with their financial support for most major projects. In this piece I meet some of the people behind NLnet, and get to know the foundation.
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Misskey and the Japanese side of the fediverse continue to grow and be its own thing. An update on Misskey incorporating, and misskey.io restricting signups to Japan.
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The developers of Lemmy held an extensive AMA. Here are some of the highlights and themes of the things they talked about.
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The launch of Threads, with its promise of adding ActivityPub support in the future, is hotly debated. I take a look at 3 upcoming pieces of legislation, the DMA, DSA and the Canadian Online News Act, to see how this potentially impacts Threads decision to federate in the future.