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A response to Daring Fireball’s recent thinkpieces about Fediverse admins wanting to block Meta’s new ActivityPub platform.

Rebuilding this site has been a labor of love. So many things are happening in this space, and it’s growing in every direction like crazy.

WeDistribute, a fediverse magazine is back publishing articles related to the fediverse. An article concerning Facebook's imminent arrival into the fediverse and the reaction to this forthcoming event has already been published....

Our passion project has relaunched, with all kinds of new coverage for the federated web....

Our passion project has relaunched, with all kinds of new coverage for the federated web.

IFTAS is making good on their promises. Last week, the Trust & Safety organization launched IFTAS Connect, a resource portal and discussion forum for Fediverse moderators....

You may have recently started using Nostr and realized that your profile ID looks super ugly. It’s a long string of letters and numbers, starting with npub....

TIDAL made a surprising announcement earlier this week, stating that they are embracing Nostr and going all in on adopting the protocol....

FediVision 2024 started off big this year, with a record 72 entries from the FediMusic community, “just shy of four hours of music”....

A recent update to Bluesky introduces a long-requested feature of the platform: Direct Messages! According to the developers, this implementation is pretty limited: messages are not end-to-end encrypted, don’t support images, and don’t currently federate from one personal data server to another....

Mastodon recently incorporated a 501c3 Non-Profit in the United States, and brought on a Board of Directors to assist in shaping and coordinating this new entity. This has been broadly seen as a big step for the project, but the Board selection is not without controversy and backlash....

Federated Code forges have been an ongoing development for some time, but their introduction could provide a way to connect many different projects and organizations across the web, using the ActivityPub-based ForgeFed spec.

An Android app for Meta’s federated Twitter competitor was accidentally leaked, and people are already datamining it for clues.

Fediverse game jams have been a thing for a while, but this one seems to have a decent amount of people interested in joining in. It could be a really fun way for a lot of creatives and programmers in the fediverse to work together and build fun experiences that reflect on themes of our shared space.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/722330...