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Federation Has a European Legal Problem
What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.nlnetAnalysis
Where Does Community Live?
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.nlnetAnalysis
The Digital Services Act and Theories of Power
The European Commission put a 120M EUR fine on X for DSA violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the issues with how they understand how power works on social platforms.nlnetAnalysis
On the coordination for better moderation systems
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.fediblocknlnet
‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism
After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.nlnetAnalysis
On discourse and decentralisation
Over the last year, as Bluesky got more popular, conversations about whether Bluesky and ATProto are really ‘decentralised’ have gotten more “popular” as well. These conversations ranged from high-quality, productive back-and-forth articles to people just saying a lot of dumb stuff on the internet (shocker, I know). As time went on, this discourse has grown more vicious and vicious however. As more governments attempt to control access to the internet, the conversations around discourse have gotten more intense as well. Last week the Social Web Community Incubator Group (SWICG) had a meeting, and out of that meeting, independent social web […]nlnetAnalysis
SocialHub and the Substrate of Decentralised Networks
SocialHub, one of the primary forums to talk about the fediverse and ActivityPub, has been struggling how to continue the operation. Decentralised networks need a coordination layer, but how to build this in a decentralised manner?nlnetAnalysis
Growth narratives on the new social networks
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?Analysis
Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing
The Open Social Web is an ongoing debate about what open social networks should look like. New tools like Bounce change how we think about this space.Analysis
Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways
Examining the different approaches taken by platforms in the fediverse and ATmosphere shows that both networks take quite different approaches. Moreover, these approaches seem compatible with each other, and it's been surprising to me that no platform has really tried to unify these yet.timelineAnalysis
Bluesky without Bluesky PBC
The ATProto protocol takes the software that runs a social networking app, and splits that up into separate components. We are now seeing the first results of this.Analysis
User agency and governance
Fediverse Report is a blog about federation, it is right there in the name. I say that I write about decentralized social networks. But why do I care about the concepts of decentralization and federation? What do they even mean? There are two different approaches to looking at the value of this new generation of social network: the individual perspective and the governance perspective: Individual The individual perspective on social networks is about user agency. Gordon Brander wrote a blog about ‘a minimal definition of user agency’. Brander says that for a person to have agency in a network, they […]AnalysisGetting started
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