Last Week in Fediverse – ep 65
Forum federation, Ghosts, Event Planners and the source code of Truth Social.
Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
The Ford Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund will be funding Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi to study how prepared the Fediverse is to face the intrinsic and extrinsic risks that come with network growth.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 58
Announcement of an Open Science Network. NodeBB joins the fediverse.
Last Week in Fediverse – episode 53
Updates on Bonfire, Threads adds quote posting, with implications for ActivityPub, and much more.
How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse – plasticbag.org
Kicking off our Fediverse research — The Fediversalist Papers
Our DIIF-funded research on Fediverse governance and administration officially begins this month, so we’ve made an informal federated blo...
Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know
Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational
social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to
Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such
a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing
that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.
Decentered S1E1: Creation and Discovery
In our first episode, we talk about the relationship between publishers and audiences, and the search for alternatives in the wake of controversy.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 51
Podcasting news. Updates to the WordPress plugin. Bluesky has over 3m accounts and the invite system will go away soon.
Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube !
Developing an ethical and emancipating alternative to YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo without Surveillance Capitalism's means is a huge undertaking. Especially for a small French not-for-profit that already manages several projects to promote digital commons. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is...
Peer into the future: PeerTube’s plans for 2024
PeerTube has released their plans for 2024, with a new app, new designs and a bigger team.
Untangling Threads - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately,
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 49
PeerTube's plans for 2024, Flipboard flips the federation switch, and a lot of links to read.
Implementing Federation, Part I | MRo Blog
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 40
Three stories that all relate to governance, in their own different ways. Mbin is a new fork of Kbin, due to governance issues at Kbin. A research paper on that gives some structure to how different Mastodon servers organise their rules. And Owncast runs into issues with how Apple governs access to the App Store.
Mastodon 4.2
In this massive update we've added search and removed friction. What's not to love?
Last Week in Fediverse – episode 36
Interesting discussions at FediForum, search has arrived with Mastodon 4.2, new tools for safety on the fediverse.
What is the fediverse — and how might it affect creators?
All social media sites interconnected — heaven or hell for creators?
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse
Threads is moving forward with their Fediverse plans, and updated their Terms of Service to focus on "Third Party Users".
The multiple meanings of fediverse
Sometimes, there are words where everyone thinks they know what it means, and also, that everyone else also has the same idea of what it means. But then it turns out that terms like ‘fediverse’ can have surprisingly vague edges. If someone talks about the fediverse to you, it’s easy to imagine a cluster of […]
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 31 – The Fediverse Report
Federation Safety Enhancement Project Announcement
Announcing the inital release of the Fediverse Safety Enhancement Project
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 30
Search is coming to Mastodon soon. An AMA with the Lemmy developers. Misskey grows and incorporates.
Eugen Rochko closed the comment section soon after
Oh dear.
First steps into the Fediverse — James Martin's devlog
I wanted to start writing about my wanderings as a software developer and decided to start yet a new blog. I have previously written on M...
Mastodon's Mastodon'ts
There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And I am 100% in the "I won't touch anything Jack Dorsey has ...
Looks Like New: How did open social media platforms originate?
In the aftermath of a chaotic Twitter takeover, many people have moved away from centralized social media platforms to a new set of social platforms that are open-source, decentralized, and user-ce…
The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem
Over the past year the Fediverse has experienced significant growth, and this comes at a very real cost: Mental Health.
Mastodon monoculture problem
Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
my goal here isn’t to plonk down a big pristine block of research, but to offer a conversational glimpse into what real humans—who were motivated to try not one, but at least two alternatives to Twitter—actually report about their unsatisfactory experiences on Mastodon.
In my experience, building cultural norms into the tooling is much more effective and less alienating than chiding.
Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
A lot of people in the responding group found the process of picking an instance, signing up, and getting set up genuinely confusing.
The Own Your Experience school doesn’t really grapple with the genuinely terrifying dynamics of mass-scale complex systems.