this week's bluesky and atproto news: - age verification in the UK is here due to OSA, including workarounds - e2ee messaging with your atproto account with [@germnetwork.com](
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Germ Network (@germnetwork.com)
Start the conversation, faster. Germ DM is end-to-end encrypted with Messaging Layer Security and is never connected to your phone number. Our int...
 ) - lots about pds migration tools this week [connectedplaces.online/reports/blue...](
connectedplaces.online
Bluesky Report – #127
The impact of the Online Safety Act on Bluesky, E2EE messaging using your ATProto account, various news around PDSes, and more.
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connectedplaces.online
Bluesky Report – #127
The impact of the Online Safety Act on Bluesky, E2EE messaging using your ATProto account, various news around PDSes, and more.
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ive tried to make it work multiple times, but as a researcher/writer about the new social networks, RSS is just not useful at all opened newsnetwire again just to check if actually did miss anything in the last 4 months or so since i had it open, and no, all already found via other channels RE:
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Molly White (@molly.wiki)
since i was writing for a general audience i only tucked in a short paragraph about using RSS as a journalist or researcher, but i genuinely have n...
Happy to say that I've gotten funding from NLnet to write about the fediverse for the next year! Connected Places will keep going for another year, and I'm excited to keep you all informed about everything thats happening on the new social web [connectedplaces.online/funding-upda...](
connectedplaces.online
Funding Update and Summer Schedule
Some practical updates for Connected Places: I’m happy to announce that I’ve gotten a grant from NLnet’s Open Social Fund! The goal of the Op...
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connectedplaces.online
Funding Update and Summer Schedule
Some practical updates for Connected Places: I’m happy to announce that I’ve gotten a grant from NLnet’s Open Social Fund! The goal of the Op...
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For this week's fediverse report, I try to make some sense of the extensive ecosystem of fediverse clients, and give an overview of the ones i'm paying the most attention to [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...](
connectedplaces.online
Fediverse Report – #127
A closer look at ecosystem of clients for the fediverse.
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connectedplaces.online
Fediverse Report – #127
A closer look at ecosystem of clients for the fediverse.
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artikel zegt dat ze als eerste in nederland beschikbaar komen, weet iemand in welke winkel?? i need this RE:
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Dominic Preston (@dompreston.com)
Go work for @theverge.com, they said. Do important journalism, they said. Yet here I am licking batteries for TikTok. https://www.theverge.com/news...
is there a blog or social media account that i can follow that summarises and translates chinese discourse on chinese ai? im curious how deepseek/kimi/qwen etc are perceived in china
quick update: no atmosphere report article this week! im taking a summer schedule for the next month or so where I publish a bit less and on a more irregular schedule some more update on that next week, as well as some funding news πŸ™ƒ
this seems like a good moment to recommend Underground Empire by @Henry Farrell and [@abenewman.bsky.social](
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Abe Newman (@abenewman.bsky.social)
W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
 ) again. excellent book that also deals with the weaponisation of payment systems by the US [henryfarrell.net/underground-...](
Underground Empire – Henry Farrell
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itch.io (@itch.io)
https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content
 [Underground Empire – Henry Far...](
Underground Empire – Henry Farrell
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is it possible to make a feed thats 'popular with friends' but takes a list as input instead of your follows?
This week's fediverse news, where I talk about Bandwagon: a music sharing that added payment features for selling albums and creating paid, private communities to share exclusive content [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...](
connectedplaces.online
Fediverse Report – #126
Bandwagon allows artists to sell music albums and share exclusive content with paying members, and Bonfire keeps adding working on more features fo...
 ) [Fediverse Report – #126](
connectedplaces.online
Fediverse Report – #126
Bandwagon allows artists to sell music albums and share exclusive content with paying members, and Bonfire keeps adding working on more features fo...
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