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The Fediverse Report is a curated blog, giving you links and context to all the news that is happening in the fediverse.

Every week you get 'Last Week in the Fediverse', with a summary of the relevant news of the week.

Feel free to follow my personal account as well.

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Fediverse Report: https://fediversereport.com
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Personal account fedi: https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof
Email: fediversereport at proton.me

Last Notes

2024-08-04 18:11:52

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 78
This week's news:
- [@gotosocial](https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@gotosocial ) latest update adds reply controls
- Conversations about racism on the fediverse, leading to work on a separate allow-list based federated network
- @npub17gp…7p4g adds automatic video transcription using Whisper
- A closer look at Patchwork, an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-78/

2024-07-14 15:51:55

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Fediverse Report will be off for the next two weeks, I'm taking a vacation break. I'll not be actively reading feeds and keeping track of what's happening, so if you feel that there is something I should see when I get back, feel free to tag me in the meantime.
Thanks!

2024-07-14 15:49:35

Last Week in #fediverse and #bluesky - ep 77
The news this week:
- Dutch government plans to expand their #Mastodon project
- Nomadic Identity (decoupling user identity from servers) over #activitypub comes to the fediverse
- @npub1nwk…dgjz combines Mastodon, #nostr and now Bluesky into a single app and a single feed.
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-and-bluesky-ep-77/

2024-07-12 14:52:02

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extra fun fact: the announcement post made by the government is natively available in the fediverse via their Wordpress ActivityPub connection!
You can see for yourself:
https://mastodon.social/@digitaleoverheid.nl@www.digitaleoverheid.nl/112772786233619445

2024-07-12 14:51:25

Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!
The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".
Announcement (in Dutch): https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/

2024-06-16 17:28:49

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 73
This week's news:
- Scraper drama as AI-powered network Maven works on implementing #ActivityPub
- Ghost will use fediverse server framework Fedify for their ActivityPub implementation
- @npub19jk…pymw releases version 2.0 with plugins
- an on-device 'For You' algorithmic feed for Lemmy with 3rd party client Quiblr
- Lemmy releases local-only communities
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-73-and-72/

2024-06-09 13:10:09

No newsletter this week, as I gotta listen to Justice and Slowdive at a festival this weekend. Back next week! In the meantime you can check out Last Month in Bluesky I wrote this week: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-may-2024/

2024-06-05 16:15:43

New: Last Month in #bluesky
The news:
- Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky
- DMs have arrived on, in a basic implementation so far
- New roadmaps for the app and the protocol
- The timeline for applying #atproto to formal standards body is pushed back until more independent active projrects have been build
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-may-2024/

2024-06-02 17:03:58

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 71
- @npub1y2r…kvzk has launched a community for fediverse moderators with IFTAS Connect
- The Canadian House of Commons has been presented with a petition to work towards open and federated social media
- @npub1hj4…533m now federates with #peertube, and for some Topics (community aggregators) peertube videos will now show up
- Some more news from #Farcaster and #nostr
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-71/

2024-05-30 12:53:12

I'll be the moderator for the session on "What's neXt? From Mastodon via ActivityPub to the Fediverse or Social Web" on the PublicSpaces conference next week in Amsterdam!
Come check it out and join the conversation!
👇
https://social.publicspaces.net/@publicspaces/112529943297959269

2024-05-26 17:11:32

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 70
This week's news:
- The Verge and 404 Media are preparing to add federation to their news sites
- @npub1dad…y568 starts adding #bluesky and #threads accounts into their communities to create a hub in the social web
- Combining #nostr and #Mastodon in a single feed with the app @npub1nwk…dgjz
- A 10k seed funding bounty for building DeviantArt on #ActivityPub
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/

2024-05-21 14:43:32

Correction: the original version stated that the Mostr.pub bridge was used for a spam wave on Bluesky. This is incorrect, a different bridge between Nostr and the fediverse, momostr.pink, was used. Mostr.pub creator Alex Gleason explains that the Mostr.pub bridge has anti-spam filtering that would have prevented such as spam attack.
https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/112468656710956489

2024-05-12 16:52:27

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 68
This week's news:
- Significant interest and use of the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky, even though it is still in active development
- Ghost gives a first glimpse at their #ActivityPub powered reading app
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-68/