The government of Nepal blocked most social media, including Mastodon. A statement on discourse and collaboration between the ActivityPub and ATProto community. Group system a.gup.pe shuts down after accidental domain transfer.

Next Sosyal is a new social media platform with close ties to the Turkish ruling party, that is based on Mastodon but does not federate.

SocialHub, one of the primary forums to talk about the fediverse and ActivityPub, has been struggling how to continue the operation. Decentralised networks need a coordination layer, but how to build this in a decentralised manner?

On understanding the fediverse as a plurality of places, and how that impacts compliance with age verification laws. In other news, CrowdBucks is a new crowdfunding platform for the fediverse, and Bounce is a new tool to migrate your followers from Bluesky...

Fediverse servers might be scraped by Meta for AI training, the SocialHub ActivityPub forum might shut down and more.

Newsletter platform Ghost ships their fediverse integration to the public, and FediCon 2025 was this week.

A closer look at ecosystem of clients for the fediverse.

Some practical updates for Connected Places: I’m happy to announce that I’ve gotten a grant from NLnet’s Open Social Fund! The goal of the Open Social Fund is to promote and support the growth of ActivityPub and the fediverse. This is a great fi...

Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be out of scope for the laws.