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Fediverse report - Stones on the beach
A two day unconference, a big interview with Eugen Rochko, and more!
Mushrooms on the bark of a dead tree
This week was the FediForum unconference, with demos and sessions. I zoom in on the sessions about Trust and Safety, talk about some demos, and more.
Fediverse report - The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon.social experiences a DDoS attack, Twitter shuts down free access to the API, Stanford is called on by the community to start their own Mastodon server, and new tools get released with some interesting implications on the capabilities of the fediverse.
The Texas Observer is a news outlet that has been active on the fediverse. It almost was shut down, but a successful fundraiser avoided this. What was the role of the fediverse in all of this?
Old rusted plates
The weekly roundup of news, interviews, and other things to keep your eyes on.
bubbles on the beach
Mozilla hosted their annual Mozfest festival this week, a virtual event with lots of different sessions and speakers about different subjects. Three sessions were specifically about the fediverse, and I joined them to see what people were talking about.
Fediverse report - leaves in a pool of water
This Sunday marked a major milestone for Mastodon as it reached 10 million registered accounts. Milestones like this are important to acknowledge and celebrate, highlighting the growth of both Mastodon and the fediverse. But how reliable is this number actually?
bark of a tree
The weekly roundup of news, interviews, and other things to keep your eyes on.
ivy-leaved toadflax on an old brick wall
Two new initiatives around journalism on the fediverse popped up this week. The journalism-focused server Newsie.social launched the verifiedjournalist.org project. It aims to provide an extra level of verification and credibility for journalism. Federated.press, another journalism-themed server, launched a new pilot project to fact check specific posts.
Young corn plants
WordPress makes it easier to allow your website to join the fediverse via a plugin. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is now an official author of the plugin. I take a look at the potential future impact of this.
frosted leaves
Lots of major news making their way on the feeds this week, like Meta considering a project to join the fediverse. In the tech world, the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank was the major news. Personally I have found more coverage and comments on this event on my Mastodon feed than expected, indicating that the fediverse is rapidly getting better for following along with major news event. But everyone talking about the major news runs the risk of missing all the other relevant things that have happened. So here is this weeks roundup of all the other things that happened, starting with WordPress: