Nature has published correspondence that calls for every scholarly institute to set up their own Mastodon instance. It talks about how global communications platforms such as Twitter and the fediverse are common goods, that should be in public hands, not private property.

Part of building out a decentralized social network is that figuring out governance structures that work for your server is hard. Recently this was visible in the drama around the shutdown of the mastodon.lol server, reported on here. This week this continues with a narrowly avoided shutdown of the Mastodon.au server. I also take a […]