Notices by Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)

New: Taking Control of Your Timeline - in Different Ways

#Fediverse platforms as well as #Bluesky offer to give the user control of their timeline - in contrast with the control that Big Tech Platforms have with their algorithmic timelines.

But the approach is surprisingly different: fediverse platforms like Mastodon give you control over *how* you see the content you follow, whereas Bluesky gives you control over *what* content you see

https://fediversereport.com/taking-control-of-your-timeline-in-different-ways/

Fediverse Report #116 - This week's #fediverse news:

- @fediforum will be June 5-7 with a new advisory board
- updates from @bonfire on their upcoming platform
- A new fediverse onboarding tool by @fedidb
- Fediverse music sharing platform Bandwagon talks about their plans for financial sustainability

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-116/

Bluesky Report 115 - This week's news for #Bluesky and #atproto:

- Lots of new independent atproto infrastructure, with new relays, appviews, and more
- research on blocking behaviour on Bluesky
- Graze is giving dev grants to accelerate the ecosystem

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-115/

Fediverse Report #115 - This week's #fediverse news:

- @peertube launches v1 of their mobile apps
- @Mastodon shares more information on their team is growing
- @swf launches places.pub, a way to put OpenStreetMap data directly on #activitypub

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-115/

This week's #Bluesky and #ATProto news - ATmosphere Report #114

- First EU atproto conf with @ahoy.eu
- Verification on Bluesky with checkmarks
- @stream.place gets 500k in funding
- A 50k grant from @freeourfeeds.com for developing IndieSky with dev community

https://fediversereport.com/atmosphere-report-114/

Fediverse Report #114 - This week's #fediverse news:

- Drama around a Fosstodon moderator, leading to the admins of the Fosstodon server stepping down. I take a closer look on what this says about how instance selection works on the fediverse, and why this means more servers should have a federation policy
- NLnet announces their latest round of fundings, with a grant for Peertube and a new project build on top of Bonfire.

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-114/

Fediverse Report #113

this week's #fediverse news is quiet, with some academic research papers on Mastodon, some renewed interest in Mastodon from Taiwan, and more.

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-113/

Bluesky Report - this week's news:

- custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official #Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-112/

Fediverse Report #112 - This week's #fediverse news:

- @peertube has published their 2025 roadmap, focusing on improvements for instance administrators this year. The PeerTube app is also coming to tablets and TV users this year
- building a blog using Lemmy as the backend
- new spam protection tools for DMs with PieFed

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-112/

Bluesky Report - This weeks news:

- Video client Skylight launches with 55k users in the first 24 hours, and funding from Mark Cuban
- Video platform Spark launches in beta with its own independent infrastructure
- an explainer how both video apps differ, and the tradeoffs that come with it

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-110/

New: Fediverse Report #110

This week's news:
- A vulnerability in Pixelfed leaked private posts from other fediverse platforms
- @iftas shared results about running a CSAM detector for half a year for a few fediverse servers
- @fediforum has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-110/

@Gargron yeah, but that does not cover everything. Especially such more interesting cases as the mastodon threads research dataset that was just released.

Regardless, the essay is about who sets the default values, and that this decision should be delegated to server admins, and not made by software platforms such as mastodon itself

New: Fediverse Report 109

This week, an essay about #Bluesky's proposal for setting user preferences on their accounts. This allows people to indicate how they want their data to be handled off-protocol. I wrote about how the #fediverse can improve on this, using its strengths of many different communities, each with its own culture and values.

Also:
- Next week is the digital conference @fediforum
- A research dataset to compare Threads and Mastodon users

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-109/

New: Fediverse Report #108

This week's news:
- Ghost's (@index) connection to the #fediverse is now availabe in public beta for Ghost Pro users, with both an #ActivityPub connection to send long-form posts into the fediverse, and a reader app to read/comment/interact with the fediverse
- @anewsocial , the organisation that manages the bridge between the fediverse and #bluesky shared their upcoming plans

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-108/

New: Fediverse Report 107

This week's news:
- @pixelfed finishes their Kickstarter campaign, raising 138k CAD. The project has expanded significantly in scope, and the team has grown with it as well.
- @encyclia is an upcoming way to connect ORCID (a unique ID for researchers) to the fediverse, allowing you to follow any scientists work, even when they are not on the fediverse.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-107/

Fediverse Report #106

This week's fediverse news:
- @iftas will shut down most of their services following a lack of funding
- Tumblr-like platform Wafrn gets its own apps, and it has a native connection to Bluesky as well.

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-106/

ChatGPT recently released a new mode, Deep Research, and Casey Newton tested it out with a prompt to write a 5k word report on the fediverse.

The best way to judge the quality of this new mode is with some in-depth analysis. So here is Fediverse Report with deep research on Deep Research's fediverse report.

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-reports-deep-research-on-deep-researchs-fediverse-report/

New: Last Week in the ATmosphere

The #ATProto tech news:

- Sync 1.1 is a proposal to make relays cheaper to run
- Multiple PDS browsers now show backlinks, making them a new type of entity in the network
- #Bluesky has 2 new vacancies to expand their T&S team

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2025feb-d/

Fediverse Report #105

A quiet newsweek this week for the fediverse:
- Importing your posts from other fediverse platforms into GoToSocial with Slurp
- Some more information about Mastodon's plans for implementing quote posts

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-105/

New: Last Week in #Bluesky

I wrote about how the rapid shift into authoritarianism in the US affects Bluesky, and how that impacts other projects on ATProto as well

Plus, a look at all the news and updates for image and video apps for Bluesky

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-bluesky-2025feb-c/