Very nice piece. Hopefully it'll push people to remember that the big social media enclosures are not really the Web. We can have more democracy on the Web again if we collectively want to.

This is indeed sad to see another platform turn against its users. This was once a place to nurture young artists... it's now another ad driven platform full of AI made scams.

Definitely this. Get the content you like known, send appreciation messages to the authors. This should keep the moribund web alive.

More people turning to RSS as a substitute for social media. There's hope.

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.

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.

Very inspiring article. I really wish we'll indeed see more and more weird and creative websites. People apparently feels uneasy in their current social media jails, the time is ripe to leap in the unknown again.

Another platform failing at proper moderation...

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.

An important question for proper statistics about the content itself. Surprisingly harder to get an answer to it than one would think.

Here we are... We're really close to crossing into this territory where any fiction can disguise itself for reality. The problem is that we'll literally be drowning in such content. The social impacts can't be underestimated.

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.

Another important software release. Let's wish luck to the new maintainers!

Hopefully this becomes true. I wouldn't mind a post-Social Media era of the Web.

Good news if this really gets enforced.

I never liked the "it's neutral, it's just a tool". A very naive view in my opinion. New illustration of this with Twitter. Tools are inserted in a socio-technical system, and the sociology side will influence the design enough to make the tool not so neutral. Here clearly all hell broke loose and it became a massive danger to democracy due to the level of misinformation and the type of messages which are advantaged by the changes.

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.