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FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks

The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.
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FR#161 – Conference Edition

How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.
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FR#160 – Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers

What makes a social network resilient?
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FR#159 – Sovereign Tech Agency funds Mastodon

Mastodon has received a 600k grant by the Sovereign Tech Agency, and Surf has launched.
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FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.
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FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.

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FR#156 – Share Where?

FR#155 – Where Does Community Live – updates

FR#154 – Search and Community

FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?

FR#152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech

FR#151 – TikTok Won’t Be Another Twitter

FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm

Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

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