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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 ...

The first issue of our Social Web newsletter, Relay, is out. Take a look!

Relay, By We Distribute

August 22nd, 2025: Something Brewing

Please be gentle. This is our first time doing this kind of thing. Welcome to our first issue of Relay.

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/

This is not a drill! 🚨 We have launched our second season of The Decentered Podcast, with some pre-event commentary about the upcoming @fediforum event happening tomorrow. https://wedistribute.org/podcast/fediforum-june-2025/ Give it a listen, #Fediverse!