I’ve been away from home, on holiday. A good time to ruminate on open social web homes from home. Here’s five takeaways from the last couple of weeks. One. Blacksky Blacksky is winning aclaim for its nascent Bluesky decentralisation: the rsky implementation; a blacksky.community app and PDS;| Paths & Patches
The day after FediCon, Vancouver waterfront was overtaken by hundreds of cosplayers at Anirevo - the Anime Revolution convention. Power Rangers, One Piece pirates and classic Japanese anime characters, with photographers and props in tow. Turning a patch of the city into what Johanna B called, in her FediCon presentation,| Paths & Patches
© Roman Eisele / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsWe're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries| augment
Here's five reasons for charities to be cheerful when leaving X (With thanks to Ian Dury and the Blockheads) One: The obvious X and Elon Musk played a big part in the Trump victory last week, buying both an equally big presence at the heart of the incoming| Paths & Patches
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How 3 + 0 adds up to more than 1 + 2 This week Bluesky added over a million users. It’s taken a lot of moving parts coming together to get to this. Over in the Fediverse the parts are still being maneuvered into place. Ghost moved into ActivityPub beta. Bonfire| Paths & Patches
It’s been a week for migration. That’s the big story. Some people in the Fediverse have been concerned that the news is all going Bluesky’s way. This blog is here to say: step back from the clone wars, redefine the arena, build alliances and it’s all| Patchwork Blog
“Newsmast is all about content, why are you moving into technology?” A great question from Jaz-Michael King at IFTAS. At first there was a simple answer: we developed a complex fork of Mastodon, and some of the technology looked like it could benefit the wider Fediverse. As we’ve started| Paths & Patches
How do we get more people to join the Fediverse, keep them engaged once they join, and bring them back if they drift away? Right now, we're in Field of Dreams mode: "If we build it, they will come." That's a lovely sentiment, and great for a movie, but we're| Paths & Patches
This blog post was inspired by a conversation with Laurens Hof of Fediverse Reports. Thank you Laurens! Microblogging in the wider Fediverse received a big boost this week with the launch of the Threads API. All credit to the Threads team for pulling it off. Another key part of the| Paths & Patches
The blog post “We need to finish building the Fediverse” set out ten building blocks to transform the Fediverse. Evan Prodromou added an extra one - making the Fediverse more social, so it’s easy to invite your friends. We’re starting work on a lot of these through Patchwork.| Paths & Patches
Faced with the challenge of how to respond to the increasing enshittification of the web, and fuelled by a night out with Flipboard’s Mike McCue and Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko, Casey Newton of Platformer laughs and says: “We need to finish building the Fediverse.” “Hell yeah” responds Evan Prodromou| Paths & Patches
In a Fedicentric world, everything revolves around Mastodon. Mastodon has around 80% of the monthly active users on the Fediverse. Mastodon sets the standard, and is where the action is. So a lot of Fediverse debates revolve around Mastodon policies, Mastodon releases, what Mastodon should and could do better. Look| Paths & Patches
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