October is Black History Month in the UK 🤎 🖤 Black history is woven into the identity of the UK. The theme this year is 'Standing Firm in Power and Pride', focusing on the power of individuals in history who exercised courage, vision, and agency. You can learn more about Black History in the UK here:

Black History Month 2025

Black History Month 2025

Discover the pioneers celebrated during Black History Month 2025, highlighting achievements in literature, music, sport, business, academia, and mo...

Or hear from Black Voices on the Social Web on the @npub174jm...w7lf Channel #BlackVoices #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Diversity #BIPOC

FediForum begins later today! We're so excited to see all the cool things happening in the Fediverse and the wider Social Web. If you're going to be showing off what you're working on, we wish you the best of luck. If not, we hope you have fun 🕺 #FediForum #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon

It's the first Friday of spooky season 🧙‍♀️ We'll be back on Monday after we've dusted off our spell books.

Your profile on the Open Social Web looks the same as your profile on Big Tech social platforms, but there's a big difference. Your profile is no longer a profile on a platform, but an address across a web. You can use it to signal far and wide, across multiple platforms and protocols. That's why we recommend filling out your profile here carefully, with this in mind. #SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #OSW #Mastodon #Profile #MastoTips

Today we're wishing our friends a meaningful Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement is a Jewish holy day, in which practising Jews ask for forgiveness. It may be intended for children, but this explanation of Yom Kippur by BBC Bitesize is the best we can find! 👇

BBC Bitesize

What is Yom Kippur? | Ages 7-11 | Bitesize Religious Festivals - BBC Bitesize

When is Yom Kippur? Learn all about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur with fun interactive videos, activities, downloads, and quizzes for KS2 schoo...

#YomKippur

"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...

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