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https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr166-no-change/ · 12 Jun 2026
Many people in Europe see the open social web as a path to digital sovereignty. This week demonstrated a problem: the assumption that European governments actually want to be sovereign.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/ · 28 May 2026
This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr163-decrypting-matrix/ · 20 May 2026
On the convergence towards private data on social networking protocols, and the connection to Matrix
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr162-eu-regulation-wont-save-open-social-networks/ · 13 May 2026
The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edition/ · 6 May 2026
How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.
https://connectedplaces.online/federation-has-a-european-legal-problem/ · 1 May 2026
What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr160-everyone-wants-servers-and-nobody-wants-servers/ · 23 Apr 2026
What makes a social network resilient?
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr159-sovereign-tech-agency-funds-mastodon/ · 15 Apr 2026
Mastodon has received a 600k grant by the Sovereign Tech Agency, and Surf has launched.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/ · 9 Apr 2026
On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/ · 12 Mar 2026
Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.