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Snapshot from Brussels
The growth of Lemmy and Kbin continues with the . Flickr is considering ActivityPub support, and new proposals to help people join the fediverse.
Snapshot from Brussels
Meta gives more information about their upcoming microblogging service that uses ActivityPub. Linux creator Linus Torvald yells at a far-right user, and the resulting discussion leads to Mozilla potentially committing engineers to help build better blocking systems. PixelFed has many updates, including Instagram Import.
Snapshot from Brussels
The fediverse keeps expanding in different and new directions. The Japanese Misskey community continues to grow rapidly. Link aggregators such as Lemmy and Kbin are getting more popular, and much other news!
Snapshot from Brussels
Conversations about Meta's new project continue, a look at what's happening with federated forum software, new updates for Pixelfed and more!
Brown wet oakleaves
News about Meta's new fediverse project Barcelona, bridging with Bluesky, and much more
Buttercup flowes in a meadow
The fediverse used to have a culture of seeing defederation as a tool to deal with unwanted situations around search and spam. New developments have changed that calculus. At the same time, Bluesky's ATproto and Meta's new microblogging platform raise new questions regarding (de)federation.
Waves on the North Sea
The fediverse loves Eurovision, a chaos era for social networks, Calckey news, and more!
rhododendron leaves
Below the surface, structural changes are happening in the fediverse. Advocacy for publically owned digital spaces has long term implications for the fediverse. Meanwhile, Mastodon is entering a new phase in it's life as an organisation, and facing new competition.
pole with lichen
A crypto spam wave, Blue skies, and so much more news is happening.
Waves on the North Sea
Large news outlets like CNN and The Verge have been talking a lot about transit notifications not being available on Twitter anymore. I take a deeper look at what is happening with transit from the perspective of the fediverse, and talk to a developer who has build a notification system for it.