#open-social-web — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #open-social-web, aggregated by home.social.
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@publicspaces will have a pre-conference unconference on June 4th.
This unconference is an open invitation to discuss & forge relationships between people involved with the #OpenSocialWeb. From app builder & protocol architects to advocates, sysadmins, moderators, community organisers & more. Let's forge bonds across cultures, protocols & apps!Admission free, registration required:
https://tickets.publicspaces.net/publicspaces/pubconf2026/#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Matrix #OpenSource #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026
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#BridgyFed has become a "load-bearing," key part of the #OpenSocialWeb making every network it bridges more valuable as it goes. "Bridgy Fed is a free public service, funded by individual donations (🔗 https://www.patreon.com/c/ANewSocial?ref=blog.anew.social) and institutional grants. Real people and orgs trust us with their money so that we can keep this thing running. We feel that responsibility acutely, and we’re serious about keeping these projects sustainable for the long haul. 🧵 1/2
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I always read this from #glaad each year: they do all of us a great service for tracking how the major platforms are doing protecting their users - or not. All the more reason for us to build out our own safer, healthier #OpenSocialWeb
"With the exception of TikTok, the 2026 scores dropped across the board. These declines are due to various factors, not all of which is quantified in the SMSI scorecard. Most significantly,… 🧵 1/2 -
Why we need to build our own social home on the #opensocialweb …
“On X since 2020 engagement saw a "72% shift to the right, which is just insane."
And humans posting on X & FB "dropped by 50%" with huge "botification of those platforms"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/rip-social-media-what-comes-next-is-messy
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Hmm.
If we keep the billions of euros that social media generates on our continent every year
and circulate that revenue in our own thriving business ecosystem, then we can
- feed local jobs / boost FLOSS community
- create European Social Stack
- fix Public Interest Infrastructure
- …—as discussed at #opensocial #opensocialweb #noaw #fediforum #fosdem etc.. etc..
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Happy #EuropeDay!
The #EU's wonderful motto is: "United in diversity". That fits perfectly with what the #OpenSocialWeb #OpenSource & the #Fediverse can do: sovereign collaboration to foster technical & social #innovation.
🤝 The #EU & #Fediverse are true social networks.
We are therefore delighted that the @EUCommission has prioritised @Mastodon over #X, as this is in line with EU's objectives & values!👍 #ThankYou!
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What a great experience to talk at the #2mr about Fediway! It was a very fruitful discourse about what the open social web and how to make it effortless for anyone. Thank you so much at @bjoernsta , @kingconsult , @frebelt and all other people for supporting us.
https://watch.2mr.social/w/aRrRjoatJgTKcfmv4GcGUv?start=7m51s
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Making the "ruthless" business case for the #OpenSocialWeb, here is Helen Halvack from the Verge:
Helen: “I'll give you the ruthless business answer of why I'm interested in open social web projects like Surf from the Flipboard team. So platforms like MetaX, they are openly hostile to news content in their algorithms. They have moved away from that. They are no longer great discovery sources for us. Links in general even. Forget news, just links. They're not like good places to… 🧵 1/4 -
More from Nilay on the Verge and the #OpenSocialWeb:
“You can get some traffic and that's great, and you can't live or die in traffic, [as] the traffic can go away. The Yahoo algorithm cannot send you traffic to your links on the Yahoo homepage anymore, which is a real experience that we've had. Google can go away. That's just traffic. It just comes and goes and that's great. The [real] goal is to turn the traffic into audience and have people come to you directly and care about… 🧵 1/3 -
The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 To Survive
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Janus & Justice: The Open WebRTC Revolution - Lorenzo Miniero - E88
Special thank you to @[email protected]
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Very gratified to see this built on #OpenSocialWeb protocols. Can't imagine why any new social or parasocial network today would be built on anything else. 🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/as-x-shuts-down-communities-acorn-debuts-an-alternative-that-puts-creators-in-control/
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Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?
Read here what I think about this:
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-floor-of-digital-sovereignty/#Fediverse #Bluesky #Blog #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #ATProto
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We completed another awesome #FediForum, and I would like to thank to the everyone I had a conversation with there for participating in a collaboration on shaping the future of the #OpenSocialWeb. I hope to see every participant, and more, in the next FediForum this fall. @[email protected]
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FediForum Number 7 Is Happening And It Makes Me Happy
The 7th FediForum is happening right now (yesterday, today, and tomorrow). There are two a year and I love going to them.
You can follow along using the hashtag #FediForum.
Most of the talks are a bit above my pay-grade, but I always learn something or get to try a new open source/open web technology.
I also get to see many of my buddies on the open social web (AT Proto/Bluesky and ActivityPub) over video from across the web and engage with them all in real time.
The discussions are top notch and there is even a sense of a hallway chat area in the online software Johannes and Anca (the organizers) use.
They also use collaborative note taking, so even though the video/recordings are non-existent, there are great notes collaboratively made and later posted on the FediForum.org site after the event.
If you get a chance to make a FediForum, you really should attend. The tickets are affordable and the community is so nice!
#activitypub #atProtocol #Community #fediforum #fediverse #openSocialWeb #openSource -
Everyone who spins up a server, develops an app, or otherwise hosts others’ speech in the Open Social Web has skin in the game when it comes to defending Section 230. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open-social-web-needs-section-230-survive #fediverse #section230 #opensocialweb
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Am a fan of both Rabble & Ben, so very much looking forward to checking this out today: "Revolution.Social (🔗 http://revolution.social/) podcast with Rabble talking about an alternate history of social media...." #OpenSocialWeb
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Journalists, stop with the “format wars” headlines for Bluesky vs. Mastodon! 🤦♀️ This isn’t zero-sum; when one wins, both benefit. It’s also the wrong question entirely. Twitter was already broken before it became ‘X,’ remember? #OpenSocialWeb
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Oh, sorry forgot that internationally, it may be different. in the US it would be illegal.
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If it's a select group of friends maybe.
But if it's made public, the law has already decided that it is illegal. See the case where even if you rent your own dedicated tuner and antenna, the courts said nope.
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#Fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb question I've been rolling around in my brain.
Capturing OTA TV signals and re-broadcasting over PeerTube.
Discuss.
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Taking Back the Internet: Federated Solutions for Public Organizations
Special thank you to @[email protected]
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over 100 follower already! thank you all. The testing of the open beta is running well! there are some easier fixable bugs, and some which are a bit more complex. we are on it to give you an even better experience. if you know people who should try fediway share our idea! #mastodon #opensource #fediverse #fediway #opensocialweb
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Open Shelves, Open Protocols: Babette's Mission to Federate Libraries - Babette - E86
Special thank you to @[email protected]
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Anyone who still needs a metric ton of mental sh*tload today, just take a quick peek into the depths of human existence and check out the comments under the latest official Bluesky post on Twitter / X. It's so pathetic.
https://x.com/bluesky/status/2044842503388426263
#bluesky #status #outage #downtime #Atmosphere #ATProto #opensocialweb
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Have you heard about @surf, the new social website product from the makers of @Flipboard? Available on any web browser or as an app, Surf gives users control of their own social media timelines. It lets you easily create customizable feeds of content from Mastodon, Bluesky, YouTube, podcasts, Threads and RSS feeds — basically any platform that’s part of the open social web. It allows you to escape the "tyranny of the algorithm" and follow the topics you really care about.
CNET has a good explainer: https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/flipboard-surf-a-customizable-feed/
Surf is for anyone, but publishers are already seeing its potential. @RollingStone, @theverge, @WIRED and @404mediaco are just a few who already have Surf social websites.
My favorite headline from all the positive media coverage: “The web can still be wonderful, and Flipboard’s Surf proves it” by @harrymccracken at @FastCompany. “This new app lets human beings weave together worthwhile stuff from across the internet, in a way that’s uniquely rewarding — and sometimes even beautiful,” the magazine’s editors wrote. https://www.fastcompany.com/91520679/surf-flipboard
Check it out at https://surf.social/ or download the app in the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipboard.surf&hl=en_US. For iOS, sign up on the waitlist: https://waitlist.surf.social/.
And here's a blog post with more info: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboards-surf-launches-first-social-websites-a-new-model-for-social-media/
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Fantastic insights about community tools in service of the Open Social Web, written by @erlend, one of the makers of roomy.space ✨