fediverse
Open Social Web Emojis
A list emojis for each open social web software and service
@ewanc26/wafrn-theme
A WAFRN theme using the pds-landing Catppuccin terminal aesthetic — dark forest-green palette, JetBrains Mono, soft rounded cards.
But First, Interoperability
Recently in May '25
May has now come to an end. We started seeing the first signs of summer, warmth and, at the same time, some rain, to keep us refreshed. It was an unusually calm month in my life, I would say. However, I have the feeling that it is the calm before the storm.
Bluesky, Fedi, and making centralisation modular
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
Escaping the Rigged Internet - Human-Generated Content
The Fediverse and Front Porches - Human-Generated Content
Human Generated Content, Issue 6
If You Can't Beat'em - Human-Generated Content
Human Generated Content, Issue 5
The Threads Creator Paradox
Finish The Job, Adam
If Meta is going to support the fediverse, it needs to actually support people who don’t live on Threads. No lip service. No half-finished betas.
Human-Generated Content 3
Human-Generated Content 2
Publishers are seeing two very different futures for their businesses. Is the future of media aggregated and summarized or is it direct-to-audience?
Patreon Belongs in the Fediverse
Patreon needs to become Threads before Threads become Patreon.
Human-Generated Content 1
This issue, Nilay Patel talks to Google's Sundar Pichai on AI, chriswaves and Mike Masnick each explore the managed decline of the web, and Molly White and Mike McCue chat about building a new web inspired by the old one.
Ghost is about to beat Substack in Discoverability
Ghost's Fediverse integration will have larger implications for the newsletter landscape. Namely, I think this will eventually bring the slow death of another social silo, Substack.
Social Silos: On Post, Artifact, and the future of closed networks
I think Post's greatest miss was not interoperating with complementary products like Flipboard, Artifact, WordPress, Medium, and Ghost to build out a cross-platform network of creators, curators, and consumers.
Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse
This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations.
Spammy Saturday
A fediverse spam crisis highlights an inherent flaw in the decentralized social networking model: Some people are bad at updating and maintaining their apps.
Ruminating On Replies
The “reply guy,” the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology.
Message In A Bottle
The current splintering of social media across networks is creating a problem eerily reminiscent of the early battles over instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn.
Making Sense of the Argument Around Meta
A detailed look at the timeline behind Meta's interactions with the Fediverse, how different parts of the network have reacted, and some insights on where things might be going.
Social Network Drift
Maybe the reason why social networks fade away over time is as simple as different generations wanting different experiences. Picnic, an emerging social network, exemplifies this point.
Let’s Save Blogging
The independent blog has been in decline for years. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why you should start a blog in 2019—and host it yourself.