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"We can have a different web, if we want it." Molly White| Paths & Patches
Travelling nine and a half hours around the world is one way to get a different perspective. Made easier by finding a welcoming Third Space to call home for a few days. FediCon was the perfect place to unplug and unwind. A refreshing break from finishing the Newsmast Foundation Fediverse| 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
The after hours Fediverse session at FOSDEM 2025 was held at HSBXL - Hackerspace Brussels. A cool, cyberpunk hangout. Wires everywhere, old computers, a fridge full of beer, Belgian goth-punks, and an old fashioned telephone receiver, hanging by its wire from the ceiling. We were in The Matrix.* In one| Paths & Patches
“The social web offers an exciting opportunity for Newsmast to spread knowledge-sharing on social media more widely.” That’s the conclusion of a report into knowledge-sharing communities on Bluesky and Threads, published today by the Newsmast Foundation. We’ve backed this up by identifying twenty top communities where there is| Paths & Patches
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
A year ago today, the Newsmast app launched in the Fediverse. Introducing curated communities on matters of public interest. From Politics to Photography. Black Voices to Biodiversity. Social Media to Sport. Newsmast was already a year in the making, inspired, as so much has been, by the fallout from Elon| Paths & Patches
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
The run up to FediForum was hard, as we worked to pull a ton of things together. After taking a month off to recharge, this blog is back in action. It’s almost our birthday We’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the launch of Newsmast -| 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
As the Fediverse embarks upon a well-deserved round of holidays, our dev team are hard at work on the basic building blocks of Patchwork. Here's a round-up of what we've achieved and what we're working on. Dashboard The first version of the Patchwork dashboard is now on our staging server.| 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
After a run of big picture blog posts, here's a deep dive into channels on Patchwork. There's a lot going on as we all work to finish building the Fediverse. Long-form content is one big idea. Curated channels are another. Something new which we're working on with Patchwork. Channels enable| 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
Farcaster, meet Newsmast. It’s weird when two things pop up around the same time, looking the same. Like Hollywood releasing two versions of the same story, in the same year. Even more weird when one is a crypto start-up with a billion dollar valuation. And the other an under-funded| 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
