Fediverse
[Sean Tilley at We Distribute] "Following President Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 election, Democratic supporters have gained a massive influx of energy and support all over the Web. Hours after the president made his announcement, Heidi Li Feldman, a law professor emeritus at Georgetown University, launched an
Fediverse
[Joel Gascoigne] "The larger social networks provide a level of distribution that's worth tapping into, but I strongly encourage investing a portion of your energy into networks where you will be able to maintain ownership long-term." Buffer CEO Joel Gascoigne talks about how the rise of
Fediverse
[Carl Sullivan at Flipboard] "Flipboard has worked with local papers and websites since its inception. Now, as part of the gradual federation of our platform, we’re bringing some of those publications to the fediverse." Flipboard turns the fediverse on for a whopping 64 US-based local and regional
Fediverse
[Sarah Perez at TechCrunch] "Newsletter platform and Substack rival Ghost announced earlier this year that it would join the fediverse, the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, more recently, Instagram Threads, among others. Now, it has made good on that
Fediverse
"Remember! If you only signed up to hear when this feature is available, or you're wondering what ActivityPub even is: This probably is not the newsletter for you. This is a behind-the-scenes, engineering-heavy, somewhat-deranged build log by the team who are working on it." And I
Fediverse
"An important step toward a more interoperable “fediverse” — the broader network of decentralized social media apps like Mastodon, Bluesky and others — has been achieved." Bridgy has always been a useful product; Bridgy Fed is an easy way for folks on the fediverse and on Bluesky to be able
Fediverse
I’m soliciting prompts for discussion. This piece is a part of that series. Erlend Sogge Heggen asks: There’s legitimate reason to be worried about Meta’s P92 project being part of a EEE play against the fediverse. How might the fediverse community counteract this, perhaps with its own