Announcing the inital release of the Fediverse Safety Enhancement Project

Search is coming to Mastodon soon. An AMA with the Lemmy developers. Misskey grows and incorporates.

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...

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 ...

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…

Over the past year the Fediverse has experienced significant growth, and this comes at a very real cost: Mental Health.

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 (

The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.

running decentralized detoxify monitoring for Mastodon

Several optimisations and changes I've made to my single user mastodon instance.

As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …

The fediverse keeps expanding in different and new directions. The Japanese Misskey community continues to grow rapidly. Link aggregators such as Lemmy and Kbin are getting more popular, and much other news!

Straight out of undergrad, I applied to a bookselling job and didn’t get it, so I started working in tech. By the end of my first year there, I was

Owncast is a selfhosted streaming service that connects to the fediverse. I take a look at how this works, and talk with the creator Gabe Kangas.

ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...

The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.

A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that an engineer behind Twitter’s pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream.

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....

# Why Internet decentralization? ![Man sitting on a rooftop using a laptop](https://blog.atomicpo

From the recently announced changes to Twitch prime, people are, understandably, upset about Twitch changing their monetization strategy, and are, predictably, wondering about the possibility of making a federated live-streaming platform.

I've been running chaos.social for nearly 5 years. A reflection.

Like many others over the past month, I’ve been thinking deeply about my experience with Twitter and whether I want to align my social media usage with the kind of platform Twitter is rapidly becoming. It’s a complex discussion (if my readers are still on Twitter, am I doing them a disservice by not using