Indieweb.social is a six-year-old. Launched only 3 years after Mastodon 1.0 itself did, give or take.Over the last two years, it was clear to me as the owner and admin that it was growing and would either need to find some form of new structure to take it to the next level, or, in some way, … read more

A few days ago, I expressed concern over Meta’s new fact-checking and content moderation policies. When Thread announced its move to the Fediverse over a year ago, we chose not to take preemptive action. Instead, we saw that we had all the tools needed for proportional responses to potential … read more

2025 Open Social Web Predictions I just finished looking over my 2024 predictions, and now onto 2025. I try to make these as quantifiable, verifiable and crisp as I can. OK - here goes - in no particular order: ▶️ The ActivityPub based Fediverse as measured by FediDB will grow by 1 million users in … read more

Looking over my 2024 predictions before I make some 2025 predictions, to soberly say which ones I got right, wrong and way wrong. ▶️ For starters got this one WAY, WAY wrong: " The overall Fediverse as measured by FediDB will cross 25 million registered users, and by year’s end over 3 to 5 … read more

So given the post-election swell of BlueSky and Threads…and a far more modest but existent swell of new users to the Fediverse, it feels like the battle to be a non-X/Twitter microblogging solution is coming into view. Threads and BlueSky, each seeing a recent momentum of over 1 milliion … read more

Cool, just testing out the new **Micro.blog editor.**​ I think a good improvement overall.​ And it does make formatting, adding links, and images - while still in markdown -a good deal easier. Thanks @manton!

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I keep wishing this peace process for a #CeaseFire in Gaza well. Keep building up hope for each one, knowing that he odds are long, but maybe this time. www.npr.org/2024/07/0…

As we see Apple, Meta, and Google deeply integrate their AI systems deeply into their platforms, browsers, and operating systems, I think one of the competitive advantages of the Fediverse will be that it is place where USERS are in control of how they consume, share, and interact with AI generated … read more

Good data here on #podcating usage: www.westwoodone.com/blog/2024…

OK Internet hive mind: working thru a half-formed idea. I like that BluesSky and Nostr and ActivityPub all learn off of each other's good ideas. And I do think that BlueSky's claims of more seamless migration of accounts is a plus, but one that #ActivityPub folks have line of site on how to improve. … read more

So everybody, good job. We made it through day one.  We can all take a deep breath. First day down. I believe both the fediverse and Threads fared well on the first day of their merger. The sky did not fall on either side, and the admins and server owners of Mastodon and other Fediverse servers … read more

This year’s #Fediforum has been outstanding.  Still digging into day 2. 

This is a brief announcement announcing Indieweb.social’s future software bridge work by BridgyFed - fed.brid.gy - will enable interoperability between ActivityPub networks and AT Protocol/BlueSky users. Read the announcement at snarfed.org/2024-02-1… As a server, Indieweb.social will … read more

These are fun and like seeing the tech predictions starting to pop up in a lot of other places. Figure I should add mine about the Fediverse. All of these predictions are based on how FediDB will measure them in the next year: ▶️ The overall Fediverse as measured by FediDB will cross 25 million … read more

As the year ends, thought this would be a good time to list some of the projects and group efforts relating to the Fediverse I’m very jazzed about. Some I’ve helped advise, some I’ve just applauded them from a distance. I think there has been more innovation that benefits user experience … read more

Jesse Chen (engineering manager on Threads) and Zahan Malkani (server engineer lead on the Threads app) from the Instagram dev team discuss their launch - growing from a small incubation team to one of the central efforts from inside Meta - and importantly they reaffirm the upcoming support for … read more

And this from this episode with Casey Newton and Joshua Toplosky: Josh: “I understand the whole Fediverse and the Mastodon thing, and that is cool, and if they can make it work well, I’m totally into it and will keep posting there… …But I think we all acknowledge, that … read more

Here are some very important quotes from the head of Instagram on their roll-out of ActivytPub support and how they plan to interact with the Fediverse: which he commits to being a “fast follow” feature to add now that they have launched, where he commits to decentralization to be a long … read more

I wrote before that we need humility, recognizing there is so much we don’t know and could be wrong about. I would have sworn that Meta would not support full export of users' social graph to go join other servers. Many opposing federation with Meta did too. We were all wrong at least to what … read more

As Meta’s new App - now officially confirmed as “Threads” - has a near-term launch date of July 6th, wanted to restate that Indieweb.social will be taking the same position as almost all mid-sized and large-sized servers and will be “Watching Like a Hawk, with our Fingers … read more

The strum and drang of the conversation of Meta joining the Fediverse continue at it’s wild and intense pace: See this: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/06/3… And to me, for the most part, that is a good thing, this is a big deal and we as a fediverse family should suss it out. We have … read more

One more post about how things are going inside the Fediverse now that #Project92 has joined the Fediverse. I have two ideas: One is that the Fediverse has ALWAYS had to make hard choices about things like this, but we’ve always found a way. We’ll do it again. The sky isn’t going … read more

With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it. ➡️ To avoid data mining … However, defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech … read more

More on Meta’s Instagram “project 92” Twitter-competitor just leaked including confirmation of #ActivityPub support: twitter.com/alexeheat…

“The most interesting thing about Meta’s Twitter clone…If Meta pursues this idea at scale, it would be an incredible departure for the world’s largest social media company.” #Barcelona #Meta #Fediverse

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