Last week

Three stories that all relate to governance, in their own different ways. Mbin is a new fork of Kbin, due to governance issues at Kbin. A research paper on that gives some structure to how different Mastodon servers organise their rules. And Owncast runs into issues with how Apple governs access to the App Store.
Free wordpress.com accounts can now connect to the fediverse. Questions about server ownership. A new update on the Twittermigration.
An update to the last month over at Bluesky. Mastodon releases their annual report.
Mark Zuckerberg talks about Threads, with implications for the fediverse. Fediseer is a new take on sharing information about server blocks. Tying some trends about Germans and social networks together.
Interesting discussions at FediForum, search has arrived with Mastodon 4.2, new tools for safety on the fediverse.
The Swiss government joins the fediverse. How to organise the groups that are responsible for ActivityPub. Governance and Lemmy.
Postmarks is a new fediverse service, with social bookmarking. Switzerland is eyeing their own Mastodon server.
Lemmy is being attacked with CSAM, raising questions about the tools that moderators need. Social network Minds joins the fediverse. Stories is shipping to mobile on Pixelfed.
Search is actually happening in Mastodon. More conversations around Lemmy and defederation. Gitlab plans to join the fediverse.
Defederation drama on Lemmy. Tragic news about Kris NĂ³va. Can you build a Mastodon server for 500 million people?