Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 95 This week's news: - National Dutch Broadcaster organisation NPO quits their Mastodon pilot, citing a lack of engagement - Mastodon is working on adding Starter Packs - A preview of @npub17gpg...7p4g upcoming 7.0 release Read at:
Last Week in the ATmosphere - this week's news for Bluesky and ATProto: - Bluesky grows by 15% in a week, and becomes Threads' Chief Product Officer - Bluesky is banned in Pakistan - New types of labelers - Concerns over an ML dataset made of Bluesky posts
New: Last Week in the ATmosphere - The Links A large collection of links to all the new tools, tech and articles of this week for #Bluesky, atproto and the ATmosphere Some highlights: - sdk.blue has all libraries for atproto - useouranos.app is a Bluesky client thats gotten some cool ATmosphere integration Read at:
Last week in the #fediverse - ep 94 This week's news: - Keeping up with links shared on your feeds with Sill - a new open and decentralised protocol with Leaf - @npub17gpg...7p4g is starting to test their mobile app. Read at:
Last Week in the #ATmosphere: - 20 million accounts on #Bluesky - #Threads is taking the competition with Bluesky serious; Bluesky might be closer in size to Threads than thought - experiments with visualising the firehose - and a ton of links Read at:
New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 93 This week's news - With Bluesky the main topic of conversations, people are experimenting with Starter Packs on the fediverse as well - @npub15k9g...k2rv can now turn any RSS feed into a paywalled #activitypub newsfeed - Pixelfed will not pursue an #atproto integration following negative feedback from the community Read at:
#Bluesky is building a decentralised network. But how does decentralisation contribute to a better distribution of power? I wrote about the difference between decentralisation as a technology and as a way to build better social structures. Read at:
Last Week in the ATmosphere This week's news for Bluesky and ATProto - 15 million accounts and over 7M MAU for Bluesky - Massive increase in the use of Starter Packs - PinkSea is a new platform on atproto for all your drawing needs
Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 92 This week's news: - New updates on @npub1wa2m...zalq and more information about further plans for their For You Algorithm - @npub13fke...z5hw is taking over the automated accounts on press.coop - An ActivityPub bot+server that consists of only 2 simple files Read at:
New: Last Week in the ATmosphere This week's news: - visualise statistics about your account with multiple new tools - Bridgy Fed (software to connect multiple protocols) discusses governance - Further integration of the ATmosphere ecosystem with 3p clients