Paths & Patches

A year ago today, the Newsmast app launched in the Fediverse. Introducing curated communities on matters of public interest. From Politics to Photography. Black Voices to Biodiversity. Social Media to Sport. Newsmast was already a year in the making, inspired, as so much has been, by the fallout from Elon

As the Fediverse embarks upon a well-deserved round of holidays, our dev team are hard at work on the basic building blocks of Patchwork. Here's a round-up of what we've achieved and what we're working on. Dashboard The first version of the Patchwork dashboard

After a run of big picture blog posts, here's a deep dive into channels on Patchwork. There's a lot going on as we all work to finish building the Fediverse. Long-form content is one big idea. Curated channels are another. Something new which we're

“The social web offers an exciting opportunity for Newsmast to spread knowledge-sharing on social media more widely.” That’s the conclusion of a report into knowledge-sharing communities on Bluesky and Threads, published today by the Newsmast Foundation.  We’ve backed this up by identifying twenty top communities where there is