The debate about how BlueSky and decentralisation or federation continues. It's nice to see how civilized the people involved are. This is how we can make progress.
A long and comprehensive analysis of Bluesky. Also brings interesting critiques about both Bluesky and the Fediverse. Clearly Bluesky as of today is not effectively decentralized and shouldn't be considered as such.
You're on the fediverse and you want to reach out bluesky users? This might be the right tool for you (unclear if it'll scale yet though). At least if and when Bluesky turns bad, people will know where to reach friends next.
Interesting explanation of the different visions and governance behind ActivityPub and ATProto.
Nice to see such a project be funded. Let's see how far this will go.
I've been listening to these radio channels the past few weeks. It's quirky, it's weird, it's wild. I definitely recommend them to get out of your usual music bubble.
Neat early experiments on query OSM for nearest potential point of interests and of geolocation support in ActivityPub implementations.
A good exploration of the Fediverse to Bluesky bridging debate from the angle of consent and the GDPR. It's complicated and that shouldn't come as unexpected.
Neat extension to blend your web browsing and discovering people on the Fediverse.
A little experiment to better understand how ActivityPub works.
Looks like the BBC likes the fediverse experiment so far. Engagement is even better than on Twitter at times. Let's hope they keep expanding.
Interesting notes, there seems to be good faith on the Meta side for now... but this leaves more questions than answers still.
Interesting stats, not that easy to gather. This gives a good overview of where the fediverse instances are hosted though.
Indeed there are a few trends at play right now which lead to RSS being in use again. I can only hope it'll keep growing.
Despite understandable limitations, this studies has a few interesting findings on how communities can more easily switch platforms (in this case from Twitter to Mastodon). At least one is a bit counter-intuitive.
As Threads being connected to the Fediverse might turn into a reality, this article becomes all the more important. The question of this connection being even desirable is an important one.
Looks like Meta is moving forward with more ActivityPub compatibility for Threads. This raises real questions about what they genuinely want to implement and what they'll abandon along the way.
More organizations leaving Twitter (now X... rofl). It's a good thing and a logical step if you take values and code of conduct into account. It clearly became a cesspool from what I see.
This is nice to see how easy it is to make sure a WordPress blog appears on the Fediverse. Hopefully will bring lots of activity.
This is a huge thing for the ferdiverse. Let's see where this leads.