Slices

Firefish faces an uncertain future, with major technical problems and part of the core team starting a fork of the project.
PeerTube has released their plans for 2024, with a new app, new designs and a bigger team.

An overview of the interesting links from the previous week. For all of this week’s news, check out Last Week in Fediverse – ep 48.

Newsmast, a social network committed to thoughtful knowledge sharing and curated communities, has emerged as a notable project within the fediverse. It is backed by the UK Newsmast Foundation Charity, which has set itself as a mission to change social media for the better. I spoke with Michael Foster, co-founder of Newsmast, and Freddie Johnson, […]

Last year’s Twitter migration, where a large number of people decided to move to Mastodon, is an example of a giant collective behavioural change that people engaged in voluntarily. A new paper takes a look at how the collective coordination happened, and what can be learned as the drivers of such a collective action. The […]

Mastodon app Mammoth has released a major update, focusing on ease of use and curated content.
Mostr.pub, the bridge between Nostr and the fediverse has been upgraded, and creator Alex Gleason gave a talk with more information and his vision on it.
Framasoft has been working on Mobilizon for 5 years. They have released their latest update, and then they will hand over the project to another organisation.
Misskey has grown and changed a lot in the past year. Developer Syuilo wrote a recap of the year.