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With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
On the tension in the DSA, that needs Big Tech platforms to exist so it can regulate them, while the fediverse does away with large platforms altogether.
The conditions that made 'leaving Twitter' a meaningful part of the open social web's identity don't exist for TikTok. What happens when people can't see each other leave?
Bluesky has verified the account of ICE, which was a step too far for many in the fediverse, wanting to disconnect from the bridge between the networks ...
ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it's a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.
Threads' fediverse integration is on maintenance mode, signalling the end to a tumultuous story and period for the fediverse.
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The European Commission put a 120M EUR fine on X for DSA violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the issues with how they understand how power works on social platforms.
Holos is a new project to run an ActivityPub server on your mobile phone, more on Thread's user statistics, and an interview with Mastodon's creator Eugen Rochko.
Newsmast launches news app that combines local news with fediverse integration, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR
Fediverse Report 142 - this week's #fediverse news ...
Fediverse community platform Bonfire launches, together with a crowdfunding campaign. Mastodon now officially quote posts, and a fediverse client for the Media Liberation Day campaign.
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Newsmast takes a new direction with a white-label app for news organisations that also offers fediverse integration ...
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on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism
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On Discourse and Decentralisation ...
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Next Sosyal is a new social media platform with close ties to the Turkish ruling party, that is based on Mastodon but does not federate ...
a deep dive into the messy substrate and coordination layers below decentralised networks, and how authoritarian thinkers like peter thiel view this substrate as a way to capture networks
