"Where the social connection for a Facebook Group is the Meta walled garden, our community apps connect through to the open social web, on the Fediverse, and, across the bridge, Bluesky." @npub1qm36...d0q6 on the Newsmast Foundation and everything we're up to at the moment.

Paths & Patches

Building apps for social spaces

The Newsmast team was in Rome last week, working through our messaging and branding with a non-profit agency. It was hot, hard work, ending up with...

#Blog #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #Pathway #App #Tech

Some new users give up on the Open Social Web after only a few days of trying. So, how do we help people who manage to make an account stay engaged in the Open Social Web? Show them people and posts they like, on topics they love. That's why we built 62 topical Newsmast Channels and then opened our Channel building technology to the public. So you can build what you care about too. Try building your own on Channel.org today 🙌 #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

We're sad to see that IFTAS Connect has begun the process of shutting down. We, like many other server admins, often found advice and help from the community there. We hope that by preserving the 'Connect' news feed with Channel.org tech we can give back to the community. Thank you for the work by @npub1y2r2...kvzk and everyone involved, including all the admins who shared their thoughts there. We look forward to seeing what's next for community collaboration on the Fediverse.

Sunsetting IFTAS Connect – IFTAS

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Moderation

It's the weekend! Have a great time and we'll see you on Monday at 9am here in the UK 🦆

Pay or consent advertising is coming the UK 👎 At the Newsmast Foundation we oppose this binary choice approach to advertising which will, without doubt, affect the most marginalised communities. We hope that the UK will follow the example of the EU and block Meta from actioning this change.

The Verge

Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ approach to ads is coming to UK after being rejected in EU

Facebook and Instagram users face a choice: subscribe, or deal with personalized ads.

#SocialMedia #Instagram #Meta #Data #PersonalData #DigitalPolicy #Technology