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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.
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?