This week's #Bluesky and #atproto news: - 38M accounts on Bluesky, with renewed discourse on a slowdown of the growth rate - The Verge's Nilay Patel talks about how SB Nation's new social feed for sports will integrate with bluesky in the future
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Bluesky Report – #128
38 million accounts on Bluesky, Vox Media is building a new social platform for sports that will integrate with Bluesky in the future, and more in ...
Fediverse Report #127 Something different this week, where I take an overview of all the clients in the fediverse ecosystem and which ones stand out to me. There are a huge amount of great clients and apps for the fediverse available, so I'm giving an overview of the clients I pay the most attention to. Feel I missed some? I'd love to hear!
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Fediverse Report – #127
A closer look at ecosystem of clients for the fediverse.
Fediverse Report #126 - This week's #fediverse news: - Music sharing platform Bandwagon adds the ability for artists to sell albums, create paid channels for exclusive content, and announces upcoming premium subscription tier for artists - @npub14rpe...za3l Social is getting close to release, and team already working on other features as well - some good articles on what its like to be a moderator, and the impact of LLMs on small communities on the fediverse
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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...
New: Fediverse Report #125 - This week's #fediverse news: - @npub163hd...mv0n's 4.4 update brings more customisation, as well as the option to set referral headers to show that people indeed click on links - Continued uncertainty around the UK's Online Safety Act, with Mastodon.social saying they "are still aligning on a way forward for people in the UK" - new features and updates for PieFed - @npub1t208...l7dl will be August 1-2 in Vancouver!
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Fediverse Report – #125
Mastodon's new 4.4 update brings new customisation features, the UK's Online Safety Act comes closer with not a lot of clarity within the...
🗞️ New essay Bluesky and Mastodon users have drastically different perceptions to the UK's new age verification laws: either treating their platform is exactly the same as a Big Tech platform, or assuming their network is so different the laws dont apply
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Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be o...
This week's #Bluesky and #atproto news: - Bluesky as a destination for sports and political campaigns - What impact does Brazil's latest Supreme Court ruling has on Bluesky? - New tool to connect your atproto account with your ethereum wallet
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Bluesky Report – #123
Bluesky is slowly growing into a destination for sports, questions on the impact of Brazils Supreme Court ruling on Bluesky, and connecting your AT...
Fediverse Report #123 - this week's #fediverse news: - Tumblr will not migrate to WordPress, and resulting from that, will not be joining the fediverse after all - @npub163hd...mv0n makes the release candidate for update 4.4 available, which among other features will display quote posts from other platforms - new funding round from @npub1n8y6...l96n with grants for better event federation, #activitypub -based polls on WordPress, and for NodeBB and Funkwhale
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Fediverse Report – #123
Tumblr will not connect to the fediverse over WordPress after all, new grants with NLnet and Mastodon 4.4 gets closer to release.
Fediverse Report is now Connected Places! As the open social web grows, my writing has expanded to cover the large variety of places within this connected network of platforms. Fundamentally I think the open social web are Connected Places. The platforms, instances and communities we're building are digital places, connected via open protocols. This name changes better reflects what my writing is all about. To read more:
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Welcome to Connected Places
Fediverse Report has relaunched as Connected Places!
Fediverse Report - This week's fediverse news: - @npub1czav...d6az happened, with a ton of demos, sessions and keynotes - @npub1lzdq...urpr gets close to a formal 1.0 release, and is already available for usage - @npub13rs5...s8u8 announces Bounce, a tool to migrate your social graph from #atproto to #activitypub - shutdown of a lemmy server provides opportunity for @npub1hj4c...533m and much more! read at:
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Fediverse Report – #120
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts ...