Last week

A proof-of-concept of a federated version of Wikipedia, a fediverse version of TikTok is started being worked on, and more.
Phanpy releases Catch-up, a new easy way to catch up on all the posts you've missed since the last time you logged in. Threads' ActivityPub development continues.
Announcement of an Open Science Network. NodeBB joins the fediverse.
A major spam wave hits the fediverse. Bluesky opens up the network to federation.
Drama about a bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky. The BBC extends their Mastodon trial. Flipboard expands their fediverse integration.

The major news of the week is that Bluesky drops the invite codes, and that it turns out to be massively popular in Japan. The network grew from just over 3 million to some 4.7 million accounts this week. For more information, you can find my article below. The news Last week, some 20 people […]

NodeBB on how they think about federating forums, a Lemmy AMA, a variety of smaller ActivityPub projects, and much more!
Updates on Bonfire, Threads adds quote posting, with implications for ActivityPub, and much more.
Owncast releases an app, after many struggles with Apple, Dutch government urges Threads to implement federation, and more.
Podcasting news. Updates to the WordPress plugin. Bluesky has over 3m accounts and the invite system will go away soon.