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FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation
This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.1
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FR#163 – Decrypting Matrix
On the convergence towards private data on social networking protocols, and the connection to Matrixnlnet
FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks
The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.nlnet
FR#161 – Conference Edition
How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.nlnet
Federation Has a European Legal Problem
What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.nlnetAnalysis
FR#160 – Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers
What makes a social network resilient?1
FR#159 – Sovereign Tech Agency funds Mastodon
Mastodon has received a 600k grant by the Sovereign Tech Agency, and Surf has launched.nlnet
FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?
On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.nlnet
FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.nlnet
FR#156 – Share Where?
On Mastodon's new Share button, and protocol ownership.1
FR#155 – Where Does Community Live – updates
A big grab bag of news, that ties into the question of 'Where Does Community Live?'nlnet
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.1
FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.nlnet
FR#152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech
On the tension in the DSA, that needs Big Tech platforms to exist so it can regulate them, while the fediverse does away with large platforms altogether.nlnet
FR#151 – TikTok Won’t Be Another Twitter
The conditions that made 'leaving Twitter' a meaningful part of the open social web's identity don't exist for TikTok. What happens when people can't see each other leave?nlnet
FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm
Bluesky built a verification system designed to distribute trust, and then didn't use it when it mattered.1
Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance
On the complexities of protocol governance.nlnet
X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it's a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.148nlnet
Fediverse Report -#147
Threads' fediverse integration is on maintenance mode, signalling the end to a tumultuous story and period for the fediverse.nlnet
Fediverse Report – #146
PeerTube releases their new annual software version update, and more on Bonfire.nlnet
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
Fediverse Report – #145
Holos is a new project to run an ActivityPub server on your mobile phone, more on Thread's user statistics, and an interview with Mastodon's creator Eugen Rochko.nlnet