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Fediverse Report – #122

Mastodon announces and retracts a new ToS for mastodon.social, Threads continues their streak of implementing ActivityPub in the most confusing way possible, and Wanderer is a new fediverse platform for sharing your hiking and biking trails.

Fediverse Report – #121

detail of a building in Brussel Belgium
Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.

Fediverse Report – #120

detail of a building in Brussel Belgium
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.

Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing

a path on the Dutch heather landscape
The Open Social Web is an ongoing debate about what open social networks should look like. New tools like Bounce change how we think about this space.

Fediverse Report – #119

small pond in the early spring
A quiet news week, with some more updates from PeerTube and PieFed.

Fediverse Report – #118

detail of a tree
The Surf app goes even deeper on building custom feeds for the fediverse and Bluesky, , a crowdfunding campaign for the PeerTube mobile app, and updates to the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky.

Fediverse Report – #117

Autumn leaves of the horse chestnut
Keynote speakers for FediForum announced, some new interesting updates for PieFed, and 15 years of the software group of Hubzilla, Friendica and others.

Decentralisation as a shifting mental framework

the fruits of the linden

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Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways

Frozen green moss
Both Mastodon and Bluesky advertise themselves that they give people control over their timelines. They both take a different approach, with Bluesky focusing on *what* you see, and Mastodon on *how* you see it.

Fediverse Report – #116

Spoonleaf sundew in a nature reserve
FediForum will be next month, Discourse talks about their fediverse integration, and an update on Bonfire.