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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
From the outside looking in, it can sometimes feel unclear as to what steps the Social Web Foundation is taking to achieve its goals. The non-profit organization’s About Page states lofty ambitions, such as bringing together implementers to build tools, policies, and protocols to advance the Fediverse. The Projects Page ...
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
More developments are happening on the front to provide payment and monetization options for the Social Web. Over the past few years, there have been interesting experiments in making this possible. Mitra, notably, pioneered subscription payments by utilizing Monero. Bandwagon has also built on the concept by instead relying on ...
Big Updates Are Coming to Loops
Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to grow and evolve. Although the platform launched with a fairly limited featureset, development has ramped up to pull in some ambitious new features. Daniel Supernault has this to say: ...
Ghost 6.0 Ships with ActivityPub Support
The Ghost.org project has been on an incredible journey over the past few months, documenting all of their hard work in the open, for the whole network to see. The team has shared the various challenges they’ve overcome, and the project has gone to develop a fantastic interface for using the platform for social purposes in ...
Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse ( wedistribute.org )
Bandwagon, the music-sharing platform built on Emissary, has seen a lot of success over the past few months. The site has grown to a catalogue of over 300 different musicians, spanning a wide range of different sounds and genres. After refining search and discovery features, project lead Ben Pate has decided to focus on ...
Bounce Helps You Switch Networks ( wedistribute.org )
For the last few months, A New Social has been working hard to support and improve Bridgy Fed, a popular tool for connecting different Bluesky and IndieWeb platforms to the Fediverse. While it does some impressive work under the hood, the team behind it is looking at a new tool to help people seamlessly move across networks, ...
FediForum is Back! ( wedistribute.org )
After controversy and the difficult decision to postpone back in March, the FediForum project has put in the hard work to make things right. The organization held multiple town halls, calls with community leaders, soliciting feedback, and establishing a new advisory board consisting of a diverse background. After taking the ...
Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech ( wedistribute.org )
Mastodon’s work to highlight their platform to journalists led to the opportunity to host an aperitivo, with special guests Save Social, at the International Journalism Festival (April 9th – 13th, 2025) in Perugia, Italy. ...
Faircamp is a Free Bandcamp Alternative ( wedistribute.org )
In the aftermath of Epic selling Bandcamp to Songtradr, Bandcamp has found itself in a place of instability. Half of the company’s employees were laid off post-acquisition, leading many to speculate over the beloved platform’s future. Most importantly, many artists who depended on the service are left looking for ...
Audon provides fantastic virtual talk spaces for Mastodon ( wedistribute.org )
The Clubhouse / Twitter Spaces craze may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean the ‘verse can’t have their own version of it. Audon is a simple multi-user voice chat app that’s fun, easy to use, and reliable. Best of all, the app relies on some neat tricks to make the experience seamless. ...
Threads’ New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse ( wedistribute.org )
Threads, Meta’s new microblogging project that piggybacks off of Instagram, has updated their Terms & Conditions to include new provisions regarding “Third Party Users”. ...
Pixelfed Groups Are Coming to the Fediverse “Very Soon” ( wedistribute.org )
For over two years, Pixelfed’s development of federated groups has continued to take shape. The feature evolved from a simple subscription relay into a fully realized community tool. Groups is fully fleshed-out, and will ship with moderation tools, user permissions, spam detection, and more. ...
Digesting the “Child Safety on Federated Social Media” Report ( wedistribute.org )
Editor’s Note: This article covers an extremely sensitive topic, and includes some screenshots of publicly available status updates that some people may consider disturbing. This content exists solely to give context to different aspects of the situation. None of the images depict gore or pornography. ...
“FediForum” Virtual Unconference is Coming Back in September! ( wedistribute.org )
Fediforum, the virtual unconference for people building the Fediverse, is coming back again. After a successful showing in March 2023, the organizers are planning a new session to focus on everything happening in our space right now. ...
Can the Fediverse Help Stop Bad Internet Bills?
“Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress.We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together — possibly into must-pass ...
The Long Effort to Bring Groups to the Fediverse ( wedistribute.org )
In the early days of the network, there was GNU Social. While the software had a number of quirks, one of its most distinctive features was the capability for group messaging. Just like the now-ubiquitous “@” sign, the platform supported a second symbol – the “!” (pronounced bang) tag. It was great: instead of trying ...