Study on the Twitter Migration
Last year’s Twitter migration, where a large number of people decided to move to Mastodon, is an example of a giant collective behavioural change that people engaged in voluntarily. A new paper takes a look at how the collective coordination happened, and what can be learned as the drivers of such a collective action. The […]
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 45
Mastodon aims to tackle problems with reply culture. Flipboard takes the next steps towards the social web. Nivenly updates on the projects they support.
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 25
Chaos at Reddit and Twitter have a direct impact on the fediverse. Growth at Lemmy and Kbin. The server database of kolektive.social gets seized by the FBI.
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 24
An eventful week in the fediverse, filled with discourse and drama about Meta’s new microblogging platform. A summary of events and a separation of the different topics that were talked about. Beyond that, WeDistribute, a blog with a long history and legacy talking about decentralized social networks is back!
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 23
The growth of Lemmy and Kbin continues with the #redditmigration. Flickr is considering ActivityPub support, and new proposals to help people join the fediverse.
A next generation of follow-finders
People have been building different tools to help find interesting accounts to follow for a while now. Recently, multiple new follow-finders tools have been launched. I take a look at each of them, as well as some historic context.
Last Quarter in the Fediverse, Q1 2023
Lots has happened in the last three months regarding the fediverse. An extensive look and summary of the last quarter.
Sneak peak: the state of the fediverse Q1 2023
A sneak peak at a new feature coming next week!
The roundup – episode 9
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: