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The Fediverse Report is a curated blog, giving you links and context to all the news that is happening in the fediverse.

Every week you get 'Last Week in the Fediverse', with a summary of the relevant news of the week.

Feel free to follow my personal account as well.

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New: Last Week in - ep 66

This week's news:

  • The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
  • Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
  • Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-66/

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New: Last Week in - ep 65

This weeks news:

  • Interoperability between NodeBB and Discourse set a new way of federation between forums
  • Publishing platform Ghost starts work on adding support
  • testing platform @pubkit launches in closed beta
  • Following podcasts on your fediverse account became even easier with PodcastAP
  • Mastodon has gotten funding to start implementing quote posts

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-65/

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New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 64

  • the DSA for server admins by @iftas
  • P2P video calls with your fediverse account, with iOS app Sora @SoraSNS
  • Full 2-way federation with @Flipboard
  • An escalating fight between the Brazilian government and Musk's X leads to president Lula joining #bluesky

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-64/

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New: Last Week in - ep 63

This weeks news:

  • @potus is now posting into the fediverse
  • @vernissage is expanding into a full photo sharing platform
  • @newsmast has a report on the broad variety of communities on the fediverse

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-63/

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New: Last Month in - March 24

  • Stackable moderation is live, and people can subscribe now to third-party labelers
  • Blogging comes to the ATmosphere with WhiteWind, allowing anyone with a Bsky account to blog
  • More information on how Bluesky plans to make money

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-march-24/

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New: Last Week in - ep 62

This week's news:

  • @mobilizon changes ownership away from Framasoft, but development will continue
  • An overview of the current work on cross-app podcasts comments with
  • Mastodon.social 'knows' about some 2800 Threads accounts, indicating that the amount of people on Threads who have turned on federation is in the couple of thousands.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-62/

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New: Last Week in - ep 61

A busy newsweek in the fediverse:

  • Threads has joined the fediverse in an open beta, allowing people from US, Canada and Japan to opt-in to having their Threads post be visible in the fediverse
  • @fediforum happened this week, with a ton of great demos, a large variety of sessions, and multiple calls and initiatives for more collaboration across the fediverse

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-61/

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is starting, exciting to see so many of you there!

For a live blog, check out @hello at https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/fediforum-live/

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Last Week in - ep 60

The fediverse continues its trend of rebuilding popular large platforms, but with . This week two projects were announced to be in development:

  • Loops, a platform for short-form video
  • Ibis, a federated version of Wikipedia

also a fascinating paper about the hashtag , and much more news this week.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-60/

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New: Last Week in - ep 59

  • @phanpy has released Catch-Up, a new feature that gives you great control of how you want to view your timeline in a great variety of new ways.
  • Threads' work on continues, and now some people that are not part of Meta also have their posts show up in the fediverse
  • Fedify is a new fediverse server framework that's in development

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-59/

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New: Last Month in Bluesky - Februari 24

An overview of all the news that has happened in and of the last month:

  • Opening of the network with federation launching and no more invite codes
  • Bluesky turns out to be popular in Japan
  • Hashtags and mute words
  • A new head of T&S

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-februari-2024/

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New: Last Week in - ep 58

This week's news:

  • NodeBB joins the fediverse, expanding the fediverse more into the world of forums!
  • Announcement of the Open Science Network, based on @bonfire

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-58/

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New: Last Week in - ep 57

Two major news items this week:

  • the fediverse gets hit with a persistent spam wave, which indicates the current vulnerabilities in the network to such an attack.
  • Bluesky opens up for federation, allowing 3p Personal Data Servers to connect to the network. This starts a new period of experimentation and new projects on the network, which will likely impact the AP-fediverse in a variety of ways that are not yet clear

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-57/

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Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the network.

In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.

Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

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Bluesky also crossed the mark for 5 million accounts today.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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New: Last Week in - ep 56

  • Discourse around a potential bridge between the fediverse and . The proposed bridge between the networks featured opt-out mechanism, but after an intense backlash by the community, changes towards a more opt-in nature are being made.
  • The @BBCRD extends their Mastodon trial
  • @Flipboard expands their fediverse integration, with over 1000 curated magazines now available via

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-56/

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Last Week in - ep 55

  • drops the invite codes, and turns out to be a massive hit in Japan. The network grew by more than 50% in less than a week's time.
  • The different federated event planning apps (, .io and Event Federation) are working together for a better unified experience
  • @theverge explains the fediverse.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-55/

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New: opens network, making it a massive hit in Japan

Bluesky's network grew by 50% in the last two days, adding 1.5million accounts since dropping the invite codes. The surge of popularity and interest seems to come mainly from Japan, with large popular Japanese accounts coming over.

Bluesky also talks more about their plans to make money, and how they will start with federation this month. With that, bridges to the become possible.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-opens-the-network/

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Small note: if you check feeds like 'Discovery' and wonder what the hell I'm talking about with all these Japanese posts: make sure that all languages are checked in your settings. AFAIK if you are not Japanese it is most likely turned off by default, making it that you don't see posts in Japanese.

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is ready to open the network.

Starting today, Bluesky will not require invite codes anymore and anyone can join the network. Later this month, the team will roll out an "experimental early version of federation", allowing other people to run their own 'Personal Data Server' (PDS).

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

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If you want more information on how Bluesky works and what a PDS is, I wrote an explainer of the technical terms here:

https://fediversereport.com/how-bluesky-works-the-network-components/

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New: Last Week in ep 54

  • The developers host an AMA, talking about decentralisation, platform identity and a roadmap
  • @nodebb talks about how they are thinking about what federating forums actually means, and how their implementation of will look like
  • Project Tapestry by @Iconfactory is a Kickstarter to build an App that gives you a single chronological feed from a variety of sources, such as , and

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-54/

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I'll be at this weekend! Would love to chat with anyone who is involved with fediverse stuff in some capacity, so hit me up here or @laurenshof if you want to meet up for a coffee or a chat.

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New: Lemmy Ask You Anything (again)

The Lemmy developers held another AMA this week (https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519 ), and in this article I go over some of the answers that stood out to me. They gave answers about platform identity, why decentralisation matters for a healthy community, more details about their roadmap and funding, as well as a whole lot more.

read at: https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything-again/

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New: Last Week in - ep 53

This week's news:

  • a closer look at the upcoming project @bonfire
  • Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation
  • @sublinks is a new link aggregating platform that recently started development

As well as a whole lot more! Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-53/

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