Yeh, I see you lovely

Three things I saw today

The pollinator garden is coming to life!

Whoops, pressed save before I edited the working title. Anyway, new blog post: https://jaz.co.uk/2025/07/01/digital-equity/

#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #2 There are 14 servers listed that support a language classified as Vulnerable or Endangered by UNESCO These spaces promote digital language equity and help safeguard cultural heritage, enabling communities to connect and express themselves in their own languages online. #Brezhoneg #Català #Cymraeg #Euskara #Føroyskt #Gaeilge #Galo #Gàidhlig #Lëtzebuergesch #Stellingwerfs #Sámi #TeReMāori #беларускаямова https://jaz.co.uk/projects/startheresocial/shs-language/

🐑 Random reminder that you can load up a relaxing #FediWall of #Defaidodon #LambSpam and #SheepOfMastodon anytime you need a moment of peace:

Fediwall

I've updated the map of organisations self-hosting their own Fediverse platform - you can now toggle by category:

uMap

Organisations Self-publishing on ActivityPub

Organisations that are hosting their own Open Social services. These are typically for internal use by staff or social media teams, but can be free...

Let me know if you have charities, NGOs, governments, companies, media, news, weather... anything I can add! EDIT: Thank you! So many great suggestions! The spreadsheet now has... drumroll.... 98 entries. I'd love to get that to 100 today.

🐟 Idle new business thought for the day: Seafood restaurant called "Sofishticated" and all menu items are terrible puns. So far I've got "Shrimply Irresistible", "Prawn to be Wild" and "Just for the Halibut". If you're hooked on this idea, add your suggestions for the menu below.

Wow, what a #FediForum ! Great to see and hear old friends, meet new ones, so much to take away, so many people heartily engaged in building ethical, safe, civil spaces. Invigorated, tired, next job will be reading all the notes for all the sessions I couldn't get to. If you couldn't attend, the notes and demos are usually online pretty quickly at

FediForum

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

So much talk at #FediForum about local communities, and self-publishers. I curate two maps, one for local- or language-centric fedi communities, and another for organisations who self-host and self-publish on ActivityPub. I am always open to suggestions for additions! Community inclusion criteria: https://jaz.co.uk/projects/mastodon-near-me/ Self-Pub orgs:

Google Docs

Organisations Self-publishing Using ActivityPub

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