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https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr156-share-where/ · 5 Mar 2026
On Mastodon's new Share button, and protocol ownership.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr155-where-does-community-live-updates/ · 27 Feb 2026
A big grab bag of news, that ties into the question of 'Where Does Community Live?'
https://connectedplaces.online/where-does-community-live/ · 18 Feb 2026
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr153-what-does-a-discord-replacement-look-like/ · 13 Feb 2026
With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr152-the-dsa-needs-big-tech/ · 7 Feb 2026
On the tension in the DSA, that needs Big Tech platforms to exist so it can regulate them, while the fediverse does away with large platforms altogether.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr151-tiktok-wont-be-another-twitter/ · 29 Jan 2026
The conditions that made 'leaving Twitter' a meaningful part of the open social web's identity don't exist for TikTok. What happens when people can't see each other leave?
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr150-on-ice-verification-and-presence-as-harm/ · 23 Jan 2026
Bluesky built a verification system designed to distribute trust, and then didn't use it when it mattered.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/ · 16 Jan 2026
On the complexities of protocol governance.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/ · 9 Jan 2026
Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it's a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/ · 19 Dec 2025
Threads' fediverse integration is on maintenance mode, signalling the end to a tumultuous story and period for the fediverse.