Definitely a good move to have more sustainable income for Mastodon.

Interesting, there are definitely some trends benefiting saner alternatives... But are we really seeing the end of the big social media platforms as we know them? Let's wait and see.

Nice and clear indicators of how decentralized the fediverse and the "atmosphere" really are.

Nice to see one more implementation available for the fediverse. This one comes with interesting features actually.

Nice experiment. When looking at the actual infrastructure used, the servers are indeed nicely decentralized. For the users the picture would be different though.

This is clearly needed. This should increase the maturity of the security practice around Fediverse software.

Clearly the security practice around Pixelfed bears questioning. I'm also a bit surprise at the lack of protection of private messages in the ActivityPub protocol (even though it's a hard admittedly a hard problem).

Indeed, the Fediverse needs to be better known. Any small actions towards this goal helps.

This is good to see funds being raised for those projects. Lets hope they get madly successful.

Definitely a good move, especially when we see the behavior of the tech moguls...

Interesting little study of engagement on various platforms. Clearly the Fediverse could do better in terms of avoiding "friendly fire", I suspect it's the top reason limiting its growth.

Yet another long piece in this interesting and in depth conversation about Bluesky. The fact that it stays civil is called out explicitly and this is appreciated.

Excellent post from Cory Doctorow about why he is only on Mastodon. Not being federated should indeed just be a deal breaker by now. Empty promises should be avoided.

Very good piece explaining why the Ferdiverse is currently our only option for a decentralized social media platform. Maybe Bluesky will become another option... maybe... but so far it's only empty promises with a real risk of capture.

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.

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