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Yellow lichen on a grey tomb stone
Visualise statistics about your account with multiple new tools, Bridgy Fed discusses governance, and further integration of the ATmosphere ecosystem with 3p clients
Fruits of Clematis vitalba (also known as old man's beard)
Loops has finally launched, Radio Free Fedi will shut down, and governance for Bridgy Fed.
A lot of mushrooms in the woods
If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentralised and federated?
The polish abstract series
Bluesky has announced a $15M series A raise by a crypto venture capital fund, leading many people to talk about 'enshittification'. But is enshittification the right way to look at things?
Wall of stone in a quarry
The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.
Clouds on a blue sky on the shore
Some big news for Bluesky this week, as they raise $15M in their series A. Another new option to import your old tweets into Bluesky, and more.
Reed flowers in autums
Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
ivy-leaved toadflax on an old brick wall
A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build interoperability with each other, and more.
bark of an old douglas tree
Chatting comes to the ATmosphere with Picosky, X is unbanned in Brazil, and a significant group of Brazilians moved back, and a deeper dive into aviary.domains.
The polish abstract series
self-hosted 3d printing app Manyfold joins the fediverse, and sub.club expands to longform blogging with write.as