Social web Five reasons for charities to cheerfully leave X Here's five reasons for charities to be cheerful when leaving X (With thanks to Ian Dury and the Blockheads) One: The obvious X and Elon Musk played a big part in the Trump victory last week, buying both an equally big presence at the heart of the incoming
Social web Addition, magic, community. Bluesky & the Fediverse. How 3 + 0 adds up to more than 1 + 2 This week Bluesky added over a million users. It’s taken a lot of moving parts coming together to get to this. Over in the Fediverse the parts are still being maneuvered into place. Ghost moved into ActivityPub beta. Bonfire
Platforms Brazil, Bluesky & the Fediverse It’s been a week for migration. That’s the big story. Some people in the Fediverse have been concerned that the news is all going Bluesky’s way. This blog is here to say: step back from the clone wars, redefine the arena, build alliances and it’s all
Social web Organisations and content creators enter the Fediverse In a Fedicentric world, everything revolves around Mastodon. Mastodon has around 80% of the monthly active users on the Fediverse. Mastodon sets the standard, and is where the action is. So a lot of Fediverse debates revolve around Mastodon policies, Mastodon releases, what Mastodon should and could do better. Look
Project News Content, technology, community “Newsmast is all about content, why are you moving into technology?” A great question from Jaz-Michael King at IFTAS. At first there was a simple answer: we developed a complex fork of Mastodon, and some of the technology looked like it could benefit the wider Fediverse. As we’ve started
Social web Storytelling in the Fediverse How do we get more people to join the Fediverse, keep them engaged once they join, and bring them back if they drift away? Right now, we're in Field of Dreams mode: "If we build it, they will come." That's a lovely sentiment, and
Social web Re-centring the Fediverse: how a footnote tells the bigger story This blog post was inspired by a conversation with Laurens Hof of Fediverse Reports. Thank you Laurens! Microblogging in the wider Fediverse received a big boost this week with the launch of the Threads API. All credit to the Threads team for pulling it off. Another key part of the
Social web We need to finish building the Fediverse Part II: Patchwork The blog post “We need to finish building the Fediverse” set out ten building blocks to transform the Fediverse. Evan Prodromou added an extra one - making the Fediverse more social, so it’s easy to invite your friends. We’re starting work on a lot of these through Patchwork.
Social web We need to finish building the Fediverse Faced with the challenge of how to respond to the increasing enshittification of the web, and fuelled by a night out with Flipboard’s Mike McCue and Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko, Casey Newton of Platformer laughs and says: “We need to finish building the Fediverse.” “Hell yeah” responds Evan Prodromou
Social web Impressions of a platform surfer Venturing out from our base in the Fediverse to promote the social web, the Newsmast team spent last week on multiple decentralised platforms - and LinkedIn. Here's a quick summary of my first impressions. Farcaster: by far the biggest surprise. Lively, growing, highly positive. Yes, it's
Social web A hub for the social web The Fediverse has around a million monthly active core users. Increasingly they are connected with millions more as the Fediverse emerges as a hub for the wider social web, giving it significant influence. Flipboard has federated with the Fediverse, followed by Threads. Other major organisations are lining up. Now, there’
