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The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.

The needs are real – and you have so much power.

This raises so many questions. Does Bluesky have a communications team (apparently not)? Why do so many of the Bluesky staff treat their (very queer, very trans, very liberal) userbase with open contempt? Why are they so attached to having bigots on their platform? And does this perhaps indicate that a fair part of the Bluesky staff have fascist sympathies (unclear, but we would do well to assume the worst)?

A starter guide for the Fediverse: what it is, how to join and its culture

--- In a Nutshell Mastodon: decentralized, self-hosted social platform It has simple, transparent, user-controlled algorithms—lik...

Proyecto UNA es un colectivo de escritura que investiga la cultura digital y nuestra relación con la tecnología, así como las nuevas formas creación de comunidad y propaganda política. Monitorizamos la reacción conservadora y las estrategias de resistencia feminista que le hacen frente. Novedad! El club de lectura antifa cuqui Una suscripción anual a una […]

Para los curiosos sobre lo que se cuece en los espacios emergentes a las afueras de las redes mainstream, la FediREVISTA es un proyecto cultural que nos da la bienvenida a otro Internet posible.

Bluesky’s moderation team has suspended dozens of people for saying "rest in piss" while sharing posts about Charlie Kirk.

Despite what right-wing influencers want you to believe, liberals actually hate political violence.

Covering the death of corporate social media through its self-enshitification and the rise of federated social media.

A visual representation of fediverse servers clustered by language or topic and their connectivity to each. Source: www.comeetie.fr/galerie/mapstodon Over the past several years, I’ve listene…

“Will the Fediverse remain niche forever, or will we inevitably reach the moment where we get the notification about Mom joining the network, and everything getting turned upside down?”#FediCon

“Here’s a topic I know which will excite all of you: governance. Will the governance of the #Fediverse become more democratic, shift to benevolent dictatorship, or the classic open source model of ...

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

En este #SábadodeComunes de julio les traemos aportes que nos invitan a cuestionar lo que damos por hecho, imaginar otros rumbos posibles y construir…

Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

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Decentralized media is off to an agonizingly slow start — but there are glimmers of progress

by Stefan Laser, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, Koushik Ravi Kumar

So… it’s coming together.