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Last summer, Tim delivered a two-part online sermon on the Seven Deadly UX Sins plaguing the Fediverse: first the diagnosis, then the path to redemption. Sean wrote his own set of solutions. It was the kind of tough love we felt the Open Social Web desper

Over the past few years, Bluesky has seen a meteoric rise, shifting from a theoretical whitepaper for technical inquiries to a fully-realized decentralized social network with millions of users. As the AT Protocol continues to pick up steam, open question

Support for end-to-end encrypted messaging in ActivityPub has been stated as a long-term goal by the Social Web Foundation, but the network might be gaining support for it sooner than anyone expected. Ben Pate, the lead dev of Emissary, posted to the netw

While Tumblr is said to be coming to the Fediverse sometime after its backend transition to WordPress, I wanted to take a moment to steer attention towards a home-grown effort largely inspired by Tumblr. Wafrn (pronounced "wah fern") is an open source pla

From the outside looking in, it can sometimes feel unclear as to what steps the Social Web Foundation is taking to achieve its goals. The non-profit organization's About Page states lofty ambitions, such as bringing together implementers to build tools, p

More developments are happening on the front to provide payment and monetization options for the Social Web. Over the past few years, there have been interesting experiments in making this possible. Mitra, notably, pioneered subscription payments by utili

A new report from Dropsite News makes the claim that Meta is allegedly scraping a large amount of independent sites for content to train their AI. What's worse is that this scraping operation appears to completely disregard robots.txt, a control list used

Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to grow and evolve. Although the platform launched with a fairly limited featureset, development has ramped up to pull in some ambitious new features. Daniel Supernault has this to

The Ghost.org project has been on an incredible journey over the past few months, documenting all of their hard work in the open, for the whole network to see. The team has shared the various challenges they've overcome, and the project has gone to develo

The ActivityPub plugin team at Automattic has been doing some amazing work. Over the past few years, this single-person project has shifted from a single-person effort to a team of full-time developers. With the release of the 7.x branch of the ActvityPub