this week's fediverse news is about how Newsmast is building apps for local news publishers that combines their articles with social media feeds, combining news with the fediverse into a single app [connectedplaces.online/fediverse-re...]( ) [Fediverse Report – #144]( )
fascinating that Threads claims over 400M monthly active users while only ~21M of US adults claim to have *ever* used Threads So where are the other 380M users located? Taiwan apparently has an active Threads community, but where else? RE: https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreic3foryb6zrpxcodc7zbs7kfmqutc6l6nbqmxci5db6kuo3kjrdse
this weeks ATmosphere/bluesky news, with how Eurosky helped show that the atproto ecosystem is bigger than just Bluesky, Bluesky doing dev grants, and how Gander is thinking about creating cultural sovereignty with their platform [ATmosphere Report - #144](https://leaflet.connectedplaces.online/3m6kaze4y3s2i )
Mastodon has a new CEO, with Eugen Rochko stepping down and the former CFO Felix Hlatky taking over the leadership role. this week's fediverse report is a reflection on that and a closer look at the changes [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...]( ) [Fediverse Report – #143]( )
Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power [ATmosphere Report 143 - Eurosk...]( )
this capsule hotel im staying at just full sent it with their space theme https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreiemikisycnd34tl7myc2ia66hyxiojvadaevltrgrgcruxnt5pjtu https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreibbmj2ehoofaix6zdyhwiuu5rpkcqgrzopzvghvxqu7hnaqnmzaqe
Community-based social networking servers requires communities to set up new servers. but what if the act of 'communities-starting-servers' is tied to specific periods of time? [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...]( ) [Fediverse Report – #142]( )
this one goes so hard, insane vocals to do live [www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk1...]( ) [Igorrr - Tout Petit Moineau @ ...]( )
more atproto news this week, with the launch of the knowledge sharing platform Semble, a new music streaming platform plyr.fm, hosting a static site on your PDS, and a whole lot more links [ATmosphere Report #142 - more ...]( )
so uh, it seems that were trending towards a situation where we have bsky's appview with a moderation policy that prohibits figurative death threats and alternative appviews with moderation policies that have a more permissive stance towards figurative death threats?