Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 31
Defederation drama on Lemmy. Tragic news about Kris Nóva. Can you build a Mastodon server for 500 million people?
Meet NLnet, the foundation supporting many fediverse projects
The NLnet foundation has played a significant role in the fediverse, with their financial support for most major projects. In this piece I meet some of the people behind NLnet, and get to know the foundation.
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 30
Search is coming to Mastodon soon. An AMA with the Lemmy developers. Misskey grows and incorporates.
Misskey and the Japanese fediverse
Misskey and the Japanese side of the fediverse continue to grow and be its own thing. An update on Misskey incorporating, and misskey.io restricting signups to Japan.
Lemmy ask you anything
The developers of Lemmy held an extensive AMA. Here are some of the highlights and themes of the things they talked about.
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 29
The BBC sets up their own Mastodon server. A W3C meeting about CSAM and Mastodon. Mastodon on your watch?
Last Week in the Fediverse – Episode 28
Stanford releases a report on CSAM on Mastodon. An extensive research on why some Bluesky users have stopped using Mastodon. Calckey rebrands with new forks.
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 27
The feverish news regarding the launch of Threads the previous week has died down somewhat. The Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server. Lemmy experiences a critical vulnerability. And some mixed messages regarding Tumblr adding ActivityPub support at some point in the future.
Making sense of Threads and regulation
The launch of Threads, with its promise of adding ActivityPub support in the future, is hotly debated. I take a look at 3 upcoming pieces of legislation, the DMA, DSA and the Canadian Online News Act, to see how this potentially impacts Threads decision to federate in the future.
Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server
The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.