People participating on the open social web have a problem: It's not yet possible to reach users on multiple sites like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads

BandWagon is a new music experience for Fediverse musicians, and offers much of what they're looking for from Bandcamp.

John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, calls himself “the inverse Peter Thiel.” That’s because he wants to build a tech company that bucks the usual narratives, with as few monopolies as possi...

More news about Ghosts' work on ActivityPub, statistics of Mastodon show the massive diversity in software ecosystem that happens when you have a fully open API, and much more.

This is part of a series of posts about the current state of Social Media. I talked about Mozilla’s failed strategy to get people out of the corporate-con

When things started getting iffy over at Twitter, Mastodon rose as a popular alternative to the traditional microblogging platfrom. In contrast to the walled gardens of other social media channels,…

Forum federation, Ghosts, Event Planners and the source code of Truth Social.

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.

Announcement of an Open Science Network. NodeBB joins the fediverse.

Updates on Bonfire, Threads adds quote posting, with implications for ActivityPub, and much more.

Our DIIF-funded research on Fediverse governance and administration officially begins this month, so we’ve made an informal federated blo...

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.

In our first episode, we talk about the relationship between publishers and audiences, and the search for alternatives in the wake of controversy.

Podcasting news. Updates to the WordPress plugin. Bluesky has over 3m accounts and the invite system will go away soon.

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...

PeerTube has released their plans for 2024, with a new app, new designs and a bigger team.

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,

PeerTube's plans for 2024, Flipboard flips the federation switch, and a lot of links to read.

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.

In this massive update we've added search and removed friction. What's not to love?

Interesting discussions at FediForum, search has arrived with Mastodon 4.2, new tools for safety on the fediverse.

All social media sites interconnected — heaven or hell for creators?

Threads is moving forward with their Fediverse plans, and updated their Terms of Service to focus on "Third Party Users".

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 […]

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.