Fediverse

On the convergence towards private data on social networking protocols, and the connection to Matrix

I’m not sure if the federation will work well but here are the handle for the threadiverse:

How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.

Tomorrow, April 12th, 0900 UTC-4, Works On My Machine Live!

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience ‘place’ at the federation level.

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.

With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

On the tension in the DSA, that needs Big Tech platforms to exist so it can regulate them, while the fediverse does away with large platforms altogether.

Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it’s a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.

This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights:

Threads’ fediverse integration is on maintenance mode, signalling the end to a tumultuous story and period for the fediverse.

his week’s #fediverse news

The European Commission put a 120M EUR fine on X for DSA violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the issues with how they understand how power works on social platforms.

Holos is a new project to run an ActivityPub server on your mobile phone, more on Thread’s user statistics, and an interview with Mastodon’s creator Eugen Rochko.

Fediverse Report 142 - this week’s #fediverse news

Fediverse Report 137 - this week’s fediverse news

This week’s fediverse news:

Fediverse Report 134 - this week's #fediverse news

a deep dive into the messy substrate and coordination layers below decentralised networks, and how authoritarian thinkers like peter thiel view this substrate as a way to capture networks

This week's #fediverse news - Fediverse Report #131

Communities on alternative social media platforms like the fediverse and Bluesky tend to create narratives about how their networks grow. For both networks the narrative is fairly similar: Big Tech platforms and their leaders behave badly, which in turn causes users to search for more ethical alternatives. This narrative is visible in the fediverse’s understanding of the 2022 Twitter Migration and Bluesky’s explosive growth in 2024. But what happens when these migration waves disappear, even though the conditions for them do not? Musk’s continuous egregious actions have not led to new growth for the fediverse and Bluesky, indicating that our narratives of growth need updating. Meanwhile, the continuous growth of Threads shows that cultural impact might just matter more than user counts.