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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Connected Places gives you an in-depth overview of the world of decentralised social networks.
I write a weekly newsletter about the ATmosphere, a weekly newsletter about the fediverse, as well as the background articles on the networks.
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New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?
On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon@mastodon.social allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/
New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem
on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like #ActivityPub and #atproto
warning: do not read if you value your sanity
https://connectedplaces.online/federation-has-a-european-legal-problem/
new from me: Fediverse Report #159, with the news:
- The @sovtechfund@mastodon.social funds @Mastodon@mastodon.social with 600k to work on new features that allows servers to collaborate on things like blocklists and media storage
- @surf@flipboard.social has launched as a social webbrowser, with publications like The Verge and Wired already onboard
- @wearenew_public@mastodon.social is hosting the Open Social Awards together with @publicspaces@social.publicspaces.net for the most promising projects on the new open social protocols
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr159-sovereign-tech-agency-funds-mastodon/
new from me: FR#156 - Share Where?
on @Mastodon@mastodon.social 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership
new from me: What is the purpose of protocols?
My reflections on the recent atproto atmosphereconf
On how the atmosphere can be understood as a subculture, what the holdfast is, and what We Can Just Do Things means
https://connectedplaces.online/reflections-on-atmosphereconf/
new from me: FR#154 - Search and Community
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social shut down their fediverse search engine, over concerns that some users have the flag for being indexable turned on without consciously enabling it.
If the consent flag Holos relied on frequently doesn't represent consent, that's a problem, because Mastodon's FASP project relies on the same.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr154-search-and-community/
A writeup of two conferences about the fediverse this week, with @fediforum@mastodon.social and the German 2MR.social conference from this week, and how they are both dealing with bridging work to both EU politics as well as atproto and the atmosphere
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edition/
new from me - Where Does Community Live?
A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web
FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
on how @altstore@fosstodon.org, Tangled and npmx.dev are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/
Fediverse Report 137 - this week's #fediverse news
- @altstore@fosstodon.org joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platforms
- @Mastodon@mastodon.social is getting Starter Packs, with more details on the design, soliciting feedback
- @anewsocial@mastodon.social announced a new version for Bounce, which allows you to transfer your account from the fediverse to #bluesky
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-137/
new from me: FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr153-what-does-a-discord-replacement-look-like/
Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news
Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is now the most popular server software on the fediverse.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-141/
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@darius@friend.camp the more i dive into the details of how the EU regulations regarding big tech are actually operating, the more im losing my mind lol
its truly spectacularly bad
Fediverse Report 133 - this week's #fediverse news:
- Government of Nepal shuts down virtually all social media over the weekend, including Mastodon
- An open letter calling for a cooling down of discourse and increased respect regarding debates between #activitypub and #atproto about decentralisation
- the a.gup.pe system, which added group support for microblogging, shuts down after the domain hijacked.
Read at:
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-133/
FR#155 - Where Does Community Live - updates
a whole bunch of news from across the fediverse and the atmosphere, from the launch of toot.wales own app to the new Dutch ministers posting on Mastodon, to this week's FediMTL conference in Montreal
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr155-where-does-community-live-updates/
news announcement at @fediforum@mastodon.social: #flipboard has launched their Mastodon integration on Android!
This means you can follow Mastodon posts via Flipboard, and add them to your magazine, or share articles from your magazines directly to Mastodon.
Even better, full #ActivityPub integration is coming for the coming months, so it can work with the full fediverse (Pixelfed, anyone?).
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/mastodon-on-android-flipboard-integration-is-here/
Replying to
@mike@flipboard.social Even more so, the end of walled gardens is also nigh when it comes to chat apps, its not only the fediverse. What @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org is doing with apps like Elements and Beeper is pretty revolutionary.
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@elk @antfu @daniel @sxzz @patak
Looks great, started using it! I wrote about this here:
https://fediverse-report.writeas.com/elk-a-mastodon-web-client-releases-in-public-alpha
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