Here's this week's issue of Relay, a roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field. [September 7th: Rising Tides](
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September 7th: Rising Tides
Here's this week's roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments ...
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The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to. [Social Web Foundation is Betti...](https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/ )
The first issue of our Social Web newsletter, Relay, is out. Take a look! [August 22rd, 2025: Something B...](
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August 22nd, 2025: Something Brewing
Please be gentle. This is our first time doing this kind of thing. Welcome to our first issue of Relay.
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We're trying something new, and starting a newsletter that adds more voices to the coverage of the Social Web. Check out Relay! [Welcome to Relay](
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Welcome to Relay
This is just a brief introduction to what Relay is, what we're planning to do, and what we hope to accomplish.
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After a brief demo at FediCon 2025, a new, open source fundraising system for the #Fediverse has been released to the public. It's native to the network, and you sign in using your own Fediverse account. [CrowdBucks is a new payment sy...](https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/ )
We Distribute is evaluating whether to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support our organization. Right now, almost everything we do is created, produced, and edited by one guy, [@deadsuperhero.com](
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Sean Tilley (@deadsuperhero.com)
Former Community Manager of #Diaspora, actively involved in reporting on decentralized technologies and the #fediverse at large. The clump of brain...
 ). If you're interested, feel free to fill out this survey: [cloud.wedistribute.org/apps/forms/s...](
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Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit? Dropsite News claims to have received a leak, and the list contains a significant amount of #Fediverse instances. [Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse...](https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/is-meta-scraping-the-fediverse-for-ai/ )
There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release. [Big Updates Are Coming to Loop...](https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/ )
For our latest episode of The Decentered Podcast, we interviewed @Rabble! It's an awesome interview that talks about Twitter, Secure Scuttlebutt, and the evolution of #Nostr. [S2E3 – Rabble from Nos.Social](https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/ )
[@wordpress.org](
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Publish your passion with the open source platform that powers the web. Follow for release updates, features, ways to contribute, & more https://ma...
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