Examining the different approaches taken by platforms in the fediverse and ATmosphere shows that both networks take quite different approaches. Moreover, these approaches seem compatible with each other, and it's been surprising to me that no platform has ...

The ATProto protocol takes the software that runs a social networking app, and splits that up into separate components. We are now seeing the first results of this.

Fediverse Report is a blog about federation, it is right there in the name. I say that I write about decentralized social networks. But why do I care about the concepts of decentralization and federation? What do they even mean? There are two different app...

Discover why exponential growth charts can be misleading and why "today" isn't a special turning point despite what many trend analyses suggest.