Connected Places gives you an in-depth overview of the world of decentralised social networks.
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Last Notes npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Catholic theology in a protocol blog, why not npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places new from me: FR#156 - Share Where? npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places this is the final Fediverse Report for 2025, I'll be back in January. Thanks so much for your support over the last year, its been much appreciated! npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report 147 - this week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places a long analysis and response to @nprofile…gadd's call for digital sovereignty. How open social protocols provide the European Commission with an opportunity for digital sovereignty, but that this opportunity also comes with a loss of power, shifting their position from network regulator to one-among-equals npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #145 - this week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places The main news of the week is that @nprofile…pqg8 is stepping down as Mastodon CEO, with @nprofile…u8td taking over the role, and this week's newsletter is a reflection on the change. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report 139 - this week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places fediverse report will be again on thursday this week so i can incorporate all the exciting #fediforum news and demos npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report 133 - this week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places What happens if Substack continues with their lock-in of writers, but other platforms on the open social web can offer better distribution and discovery? npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places some thoughts on Bounce, the new tool by @nprofile…km94 that lets you migrate your social graph from bluesky to mastodon and pixelfed npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #129 - this week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's #Bluesky and #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report 128 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places this week's #bluesky and #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places In other news: I've gotten funding from @nprofile…klwf to write Fediverse Report for the next year! Huge thanks to NLnet for the support! npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #127 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #126 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places 🗞️ New essay npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places On a practical note: this summer I'll be experimenting with a few more of these essays. Fediverse news was quiet this week, so Fediverse Report is skipped this week, and instead I wrote this article. Next week's Fediverse Report will have the news of the last 2 weeks instead. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Alternative social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have constructed a narrative of how growth of the network happens: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down? npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's #Bluesky and #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #123 - this week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places ATmosphere Report #122 - This weeks #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Some more practical stuff:[email protected] npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places The weekly Fediverse Report doesnt disappear though, its just on a different domain name. In fact, Fediverse Report #122 is right here! npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report is now Connected Places! npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places this week's #bluesky and #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report - This week's fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places minor programming note: this week's fediverse report will come out tomorrow, not today npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places How we understand the new open social networks, like the fediverse and the ATmosphere, is continually changing. 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I'll be hosting a session on 'Whats new in the Open Social Web', and I'm pretty damn excited about it tbh. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report - This week's #fediverse news npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's #atproto and #Bluesky news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Bluesky Report #117 - this week's #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #117 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places The term 'decentralisation' has shifted over time in meaning, from a way to describe a networking architecture to a way how the fediverse understands itself. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: ATmosphere Report npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Taking Control of Your Timeline - in Different Ways npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #116 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Bluesky Report 115 - This week's news for #Bluesky and #atproto: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places You can catch me live right now chatting with @nprofile…uuja npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #115 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's #Bluesky and #ATProto news - ATmosphere Report #114 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #114 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #113 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #112 - This week's #fediverse news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Bluesky Report - This weeks news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Fediverse Report #110 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places For this week's email newsletter I wrote a reflection on @nprofile…7gpe speech at the ATmosphere Conference. Jay wants to show that a different world/internet is possible. But is a positive vision of the internet enough? npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places ATmosphere Report - This week's atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Fediverse Report 109 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's news for Bluesky and ATProto npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Fediverse Report #108 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places ATmosphere Report - This week's #atproto news: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Fediverse Report 107 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #106 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places ChatGPT recently released a new mode, Deep Research, and Casey Newton tested it out with a prompt to write a 5k word report on the fediverse. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in the ATmosphere npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report #105 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Bluesky npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Fediverse Report #104 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's news about ATProto and the ATmosphere: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Fediverse Report # 103 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 100 (!) npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 99 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report will be on holiday break for the rest of 2024. The next edition of Last Week in Fediverse will be out on January 7th. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 97 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places This week's news for #Bluesky and the ATmosphere npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 96 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads? npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in the ATmosphere - The Links npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Last Week in the #ATmosphere: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 93 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 92 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places @npub1ga5…jsq7 username fediversereport.com npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Last Week in the #ATmosphere npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 90 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 88 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Last Week in the #atmosphere npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 87 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Last Week in the #ATmosphere npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 86 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Also new: Last Week in the ATmosphere: npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 83 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places @npub1y4n…25mf that product is a apparently bad word explains a whole lot about the state of the fediverse tho lol npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places I also made an easy-to-share PDF, Fediverse for Publishers. It gives a quick overview of what the fediverse is, why it matters for publishers and journalists, and an easy overview of the different ways to get started. Check it out, and feel free to share and use it. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Fediverse Report will be off for the next two weeks, I'm taking a vacation break. I'll not be actively reading feeds and keeping track of what's happening, so if you feel that there is something I should see when I get back, feel free to tag me in the meantime. npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places extra fun fact: the announcement post made by the government is natively available in the fediverse via their Wordpress ActivityPub connection! [email protected] /112772786233619445 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025! npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places The Dutch government celebrates 1 year of their Mastodon Project! npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places Last Month in #Bluesky - June 2024 npub1daf0jwnmp53cgvw536lnh5e7qc4anqesecyldu73fm0e54kccyeskw783p Connected Places New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 75
