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Nonprofit organization Social Web Foundation is quietly focused on building tools, libraries, and prototypes to demonstrate what ActivityPub C2S could do.

A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.

Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to evolve. Here's what's new for the video platform.

Ghost, the popular open source competitor to WordPress and Substack, offers a new release with ActivityPub support.

Automattic has made a new release of the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, with some key updates for remote follow functionality.

An open source music-sharing platform has been growing in popularity on the Fediverse. The next major milestone? Helping artists sell music.

The team behind Bridgy Fed is building an innovative new tool that helps you automatically move from one network to another.

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Following community controversy and postponement, the Fediverse's most popular unconference is back on track. Here's the details on the next event!

At the International Journalism Festival, Mastodon joined forces with Save Social to make a case for journalists and publications to join the network.

The FediForum Unconference is facing backlash and speakers pulling out in the face of public bigoted comments.

Ghost has announced a public beta for Social Web integration, bringing their publishing platform to the Fediverse. We test it out!

Coinbase is working on an updated wallet app that acts as a Farcaster social client, in a bid to onboard the next billion crypto users.

We look at an interesting trend within federated networks where members build smaller insular communities using Open Web technologies.

Funkwhale is building a new mechanism to filtering out music from Nazis and White Supremacists. In doing so, this opens a can of worms.

The weekend is coming up. You've been thinking a lot about that online community you want to start. It's time to launch a Fediverse server!

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The Fediverse’s premiere Trust & Safety organization is struggling to make ends meet, and needs help with meeting its goals.

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A beloved community radio station featuring only music by Fediverse artists has closed its doors. This is its legacy.

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In the face of public backlash, a Fediverse developer is forced to shut down a hobby project after people misunderstood what it did.

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