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August 11, 2025

Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

August 8, 2025

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

August 4, 2025

Ghost 6.0 Ships with ActivityPub Support

July 23, 2025

WordPress-ActivityPub v 7.1.0 Introduces Following Capabilities

June 10, 2025

Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse

June 5, 2025

Bounce Helps You Switch Networks

June 5, 2025

Our FediForum June 2025 Live Coverage

May 28, 2025

FediForum is Back!

May 12, 2025

Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech

March 31, 2025

FediForum Has Been Canceled

Latest News

June 5, 2025
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Bounce Helps You Switch Networks

The team behind Bridgy Fed is building an innovative new tool that…
May 28, 2025
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FediForum is Back!

Following community controversy and postponement, the Fediverse's most popular unconference is back…
May 12, 2025
226

Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech

At the International Journalism Festival, Mastodon joined forces with Save Social to…
March 31, 2025
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FediForum Has Been Canceled

The FediForum Unconference is facing backlash and speakers pulling out in the…
March 20, 2025
174

Farcaster is Coming To Coinbase Wallet

Coinbase is working on an updated wallet app that acts as a…
February 28, 2025
243

Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music

Funkwhale is building a new mechanism to filtering out music from Nazis…

Culture

Culture

Sean TilleyMarch 18, 2025
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Website League and the Rise of Island Networks

We look at an interesting trend within federated networks where members build smaller insular communities using Open Web technologies.
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February 4, 2025

Remembering Radio Free Fedi
January 22, 2025

The Challenge of Upward Momentum
September 19, 2024

The Revolution Will Be Federated

Reviews and Guides

Reviews

Sean TilleyMarch 20, 2025
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Hands on with Ghost’s New ActivityPub Beta

Ghost has announced a public beta for Social Web integration, bringing their publishing platform to the Fediverse. We test it…
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February 20, 2025

How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server
December 12, 2024

How to Make Your First Loops Video
July 15, 2024

Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide

Decentered

S1E9: Finding Frequency with Jesse Karmani

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S1E9: Finding Frequency with Jesse Karmani

Jun 13, 2024 • 46:33

For this week's episode, we sit down with a developer who wants to build a social experience for small audiences: pictures with your friends.
Decentered S1E1: Creation and Discovery

Jan 13, 2024 • 38:49

In our first episode, we talk about the relationship between publishers and audiences, and the search for alternatives in the wake of controversy.
Decentered S1E2: Making Sora, with Takiyoshi Hoshida

Jan 18, 2024 • 01:20:17

The story of one Fediverse app developer and his journey from developing a love for computers to building one of the most versatile apps on the network.
Decentered S1E3: Ryan Barrett Has a Bridge to Sell Us

Jan 31, 2024 • 59:47

We sat down with Ryan Barrett of Bridgy Fed, who has explored many decentralized social protocols. We asked him to tell his story.
Decentered S1E4: Shawn Grigson and the Oliphant in the Room

Feb 16, 2024 • 59:52

Oliphant is often seen as the community standard-bearer when it comes to shared blocklists. But how did it start, what is the goal, and where is it going?
Decentered S1E6: Beautiful Blacksky with Rudy Fraser

Mar 21, 2024 • 1:01:33

This week, we talked to Rudy Fraser, creator and operator of the Blacksky feed. It's a dedicated community stream for black voices on Bluesky's platform.
Decentered S1E7: The Joy of Micro.Blog with Manton Reece

Apr 5, 2024 • 48:11

This week, we sit down with Manton Reece, an IndieWeb developer who built his own federated microblogging and publishing platform.
Decentered S1E8: WordPress-ActivityPub with Matthias Pfefferle

Apr 25, 2024 • 53:04

Today, we sit down with Matthias Pfefferle of Automattic, the developer behind the ActivityPub integration for WordPress!
Season 2 Episode 1: FediForum Commentary

Jun 4, 2025 • 00:41:18:07

In light of the recent controversy concerning Maven’s ingestion of over a million posts and thousands of profiles, the conversation has shifted towards the nature of open networks, and whether that might be at odds with the expectation of privacy and user consent. Like clockwork, new developers come into an…
Season 2 Episode 2: FediForum Recap

Jun 14, 2025 • 59:49

Saskia Welch from Newsmast joins us to talk about last week's FediForum event, and we discuss some of the big themes people were talking about!