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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 ...

Sync is not dead — it's just federated now

The Fediverse, a decentralized social network with interconnected spaces that are each independently managed with unique rules and cultural norms, has seen a surge in popularity. Decentralization h...

An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It's a solvable problem, with challenges.

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

The BBC sets up their own Mastodon server. A W3C meeting about CSAM and Mastodon. Mastodon on your watch?

One of my favorite iPad apps of all time is Wooji Juice’s Ferrite Recording Studio, a complete multi-track audio editor that I prefer to the likes of Logic and GarageBand for editing podcasts…

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…

Image Credit: Misskey Mascot @ai@misskey.io (an interesting bot account), via Misskey The main Misskey server at Misskey.io is experie...

Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.

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

This has been a year of new creative projects for me. In addition to some personal endeavors that have yet to see the light of day, I joined Federico as the co-host of Adapt, a new iPad-focused podcast on Relay FM. Learning the art of expressing my Apple takes in speech rather than text has

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 (

There's more to it than some badges and blue paint

An expanded six-hour endurance race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway highlights the 11-race schedule, which also drops Lime Rock Park for the Detroit Grand Prix street circuit.

Family-centric programming at worker centers has helped bolster organizing among working mothers—and led to invaluable policy victories.

How long does it take to rebuild an app from pixel to bit? Where do you start? How do you future-proof it? Learn some insider baseball about our development adventure on the road to Bear 2.

Bandcamp, an online music store and community where fans can discover, connect with, and directly support the independent musicians they love, is joining Epic Games!

As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.

I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet. Bandcamp will keep operating a…

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

A browser privacy showdown has been brewing for a while.

On Thursday, Apple announced its fiscal third-quarter earnings and in a surprise announcement has declared that it has hit the milestone one billion paid subscriptions landmark across Services and the App Store.

X is beginning to fully take over.