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• Post #2098293

  A writeup of two conferences about the fediverse this week, with @fediforum@mastodon.social and the German 2MR.social conference from this week, and how they are both dealing with bridging work to both EU politics as well as atproto and the atmosphere https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edition/

• Post #1852660

  New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like #ActivityPub and #atproto warning: do not read if you value your sanity https://connectedplaces.online/federation-has-a-european-legal-problem/

• Post #1585013

  New from me: what makes social networks resilient? https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr160-everyone-wants-servers-and-nobody-wants-servers/

• Post #1338259

  Fediverse Report 133 - this week's #fediverse news: - Government of Nepal shuts down virtually all social media over the weekend, including Mastodon - An open letter calling for a cooling down of discourse and increased respect regarding debates between #activitypub and #atproto about decentralisation - the a.gup.pe system, which added group support for microblogging, shuts down after the domain hijacked. Read at: https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-133/

• Post #1183933

  new from me: Fediverse Report #159, with the news: - The @sovtechfund funds @Mastodon with 600k to work on new features that allows servers to collaborate on things like blocklists and media storage - @surf has launched as a social webbrowser, with publications like The Verge and Wired already onboard - @wearenew_public is hosting the Open Social Awards together with @publicspaces for the most promising projects on the new open social protocols https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr159-sove...

• Post #1040778

  New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for? On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

• Post #974899

  My reflections on the recent atproto atmosphereconf On how the atmosphere can be understood as a subculture, what the holdfast is, and what We Can Just Do Things means https://connectedplaces.online/reflections-on-atmosphereconf/

• Post #788892

  news announcement at @fediforum: #flipboard has launched their Mastodon integration on Android! This means you can follow Mastodon posts via Flipboard, and add them to your magazine, or share articles from your magazines directly to Mastodon. Even better, full #ActivityPub integration is coming for the coming months, so it can work with the full fediverse (Pixelfed, anyone?). https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/mastodon-on-android-flipboard-integration-is-here/

• Post #707084

  new from me: What is the purpose of protocols? https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

• Post #697107

  new from me: FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr153-what-does-a-discord-replacement-look-like/

• Post #697106

  new from me - Where Does Community Live? A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web https://connectedplaces.online/where-does-community-live/

• Post #697104

  FR#157 – Social Software Distribution on how @altstore, Tangled and npmx.dev are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/

• Post #655667

  FR#155 - Where Does Community Live - updates a whole bunch of news from across the fediverse and the atmosphere, from the launch of toot.wales own app to the new Dutch ministers posting on Mastodon, to this week's FediMTL conference in Montreal https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr155-where-does-community-live-updates/

• Post #620581

  new from me: FR#156 - Share Where? on @Mastodon 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr156-share-where/

• Post #607078

  Fediverse Report 137 - this week's #fediverse news - @altstore joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platforms - @Mastodon is getting Starter Packs, with more details on the design, soliciting feedback - @anewsocial announced a new version for Bounce, which allows you to transfer your account from the fediverse to #bluesky https://connectedplaces....

• Post #560802

  Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is now the most popular server software on the fediverse. https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-141/

• Post #368091

  new from me: FR#154 - Search and Community @HolosSocial@mastodon.social shut down their fediverse search engine, over concerns that some users have the flag for being indexable turned on without consciously enabling it. If the consent flag Holos relied on frequently doesn't represent consent, that's a problem, because Mastodon's FASP project relies on the same. https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr154-search-and-community/

• Post #284299

  Fediverse Report #116 - This week's #fediverse news: - @fediforum will be June 5-7 with a new advisory board - updates from @bonfire on their upcoming platform - A new fediverse onboarding tool by @fedidb - Fediverse music sharing platform Bandwagon talks about their plans for financial sustainability Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-116/