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Here's this week's issue of Relay, a roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.

Relay, By We Distribute

September 7th: Rising Tides

Here's this week's roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments ...

After a brief demo at FediCon 2025, a new, open source fundraising system for the #Fediverse has been released to the public. It's native to the network, and you sign in using your own Fediverse account. https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/

We Distribute is currently evaluating whether to launch a crowdfunding campaign to help support our organization. Right now, almost everything we do is created, produced, and edited by one guy, @Sean Tilley. With funding, we would be able to pay regular contributors and hire people to help us produce media on a much more frequent basis. If you're interested, please feel free to fill out this short survey:

Nextcloud

There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the #Fediverse alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release. https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/

For our latest episode of The Decentered Podcast, we interviewed @rabble! It's an awesome interview that talks about Twitter, Secure Scuttlebutt, and the evolution of #Nostr. https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/

WordPress is continuing work on their #Fediverse integration, adding new capabilities that lets WordPress users subscribe to people right from the dashboard. Here's why this matters for the future of WordPress on the Social Web. https://wedistribute.org/2025/07/wordpress-activitypub-v-7-1-0-introduces-following-capabilities/

An open source, self-hostable music platform will soon allow people on the #Fediverse to buy music and support artists. Here's why it's a big deal. https://wedistribute.org/2025/06/bandwagon-music-sales/

You can check out our daily live coverage of #FediForum here: https://wedistribute.org/2025/06/fediforum-june-2025/