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Jay Graber Steps Down as Bluesky CEO

Jay Graber is most widely known as the CEO of Bluesky PBC. In a surprising announcement, she is stepping down from the role to serve as Chief Innovation Officer.

Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon

One of the Social Web Foundation's initiatives for improving ActivityPub will soon be a reality for the network.

Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy

What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.

Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API

Nonprofit organization Social Web Foundation is quietly focused on building tools, libraries, and prototypes to demonstrate what ActivityPub C2S could do.

Open ProtocolsSocial Web Foundation

CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse

A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.

CommerceCrowdfunding

Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to evolve. Here's what's new for the video platform.

Ghost 6.0 Ships with ActivityPub Support

Ghost, the popular open source competitor to WordPress and Substack, offers a new release with ActivityPub support.

PublishingReading

WordPress-ActivityPub v 7.1.0 Introduces Following Capabilities

Automattic has made a new release of the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, with some key updates for remote follow functionality.

Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse

An open source music-sharing platform has been growing in popularity on the Fediverse. The next major milestone? Helping artists sell music.

Bounce Helps You Switch Networks

The team behind Bridgy Fed is building an innovative new tool that helps you automatically move from one network to another.

BridgingData Migration

Our FediForum June 2025 Live Coverage

Welcome back! We’re here to talk about all things happening at FediForum for the next three days. Look at the space below to see our updates!