The Fediverse report

For all the relevant news on the Fediverse

Connected Places is the new source that helps you better understand the new social web. It is a rebrand of the Fediverse Report website, to make it clearer that connected places is the place to go for news and analysis about the open social web, the fediverse, the ATmosphere and a variety of other online spaces that form part of this connected web of social platforms.

Publishing under the new name of Connected Places communicates more clearly that the focus is more than strictly just the fediverse. I will not publish new articles on this site anymore; now it is in fact an archive site.

But nothing really changes except the name plus a new website. Plus a more broader view on the new social web.

Latest news

Detail of building in Amsterdam-North
A slow news week in the fediverse, with some new research papers on Mastodon and more.
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Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
Detail of building in Amsterdam-North
This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.
Detail of building in Amsterdam-North
A 2025 roadmap for PeerTube, some more info on how FediForum is moving forward and more.
Detail of building in Amsterdam-North
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber hints some more at Bluesky PBC's plans for monetisation, on ATProto's ethos, and more.
Detail of building in Amsterdam-North
A new security fund for the fediverse, and the Lemmy developers held an AMA.
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Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.
Sharp-flowered rush in an nature reserve
A vulnerability in Pixelfed caused private posts from other platforms to leak, a post-mortem on the CSAM scanner from IFTAS, and Fediforum has been cancelled.
Waterdrops on a green bench
The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
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An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse's interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.