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Connected Places

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Laurens Hof

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‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.
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On discourse and decentralisation

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SocialHub and the Substrate of Decentralised Networks

SocialHub, one of the primary forums to talk about the fediverse and ActivityPub, has been struggling how to continue the operation. Decentralised networks need a coordination layer, but how to build this in a decentralised manner?
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Funding Update and Summer Schedule

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Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?

Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be out of scope for the laws.
detail of a building in Brugge Belgium

Growth narratives on the new social networks

The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?
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Welcome to Connected Places

Fediverse Report has relaunched as Connected Places!
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Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing

The Open Social Web is an ongoing debate about what open social networks should look like. New tools like Bounce change how we think about this space.
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The open social web – a quick intro

Connected Places is about understanding the vague group of social networks. The protocols are open and they interact with each other, and are not centralize owned and governed.
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Why I care about social networks

I care so much about social networks is because I view social networks as collective sense-making tools. And different social networks have different views