Sean Tilley

Sean Tilley has been a part of the federated social web for over 15+ years, starting with his experiences with Identi.ca back in 2008. Sean was involved with the Diaspora project as a Community Manager from 2011 to 2013, and helped the project move to a self-governed model. Since then, Sean has continued to study, discuss, and document the evolution of the space and the new platforms that have risen within it.

Opinion

Sean TilleyFebruary 13, 2024
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Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges

A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked…
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News

Sean TilleyFebruary 12, 2024
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Bonfire Offers Framework for Next-Gen Fediverse Platforms

Bonfire is an emerging Fediverse project that's been in development for years. It's more than just a platform.
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News

Sean TilleyFebruary 10, 2024
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Pixelfed Urges Admins to Update After 9.9/10 CVE Reveal

For the second time this month, a Fediverse project reports a critical vulnerability. The devs are on top of it:…
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News

Sean TilleyFebruary 6, 2024
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Bluesky is Now Open to Everyone

Bluesky, the ambitious spinoff effort of Twitter to develop a platform, protocol, and ecosystem - finally opens the floodgates.
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News

Sean TilleyFebruary 1, 2024
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IFTAS Takes Stance Against Misgendering and Deadnaming

A Trust & Safety organization is offering a covenant and language to help instances adjust their policies. Will it help?
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News

Sean TilleyFebruary 1, 2024
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Mastodon Exploit Allows for Remote Impersonation and Takeover

A new Mastodon vulnerability was found out in the wild, and it's a nasty one. Admins are advised to update…
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The Mixtape

Sean TilleyJanuary 26, 2024
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The Mixtape #4: Space Vibes

You voted, we committed to the bit. Check out the latest playlist of Radio Free Fedi music. This Mixtape commits…
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News

Sean TilleyJanuary 23, 2024
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Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban

Mastodon instance Queer.af is shutting down because the country that provides the domain is now ruled by the Taliban.
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News

Sean TilleyJanuary 22, 2024
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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy

The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API…
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News

Sean TilleyDecember 26, 2023
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Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers

A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect…
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