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Analysis

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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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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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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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Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways

Examining the different approaches taken by platforms in the fediverse and ATmosphere shows that both networks take quite different approaches. Moreover, these approaches seem compatible with each other, and it's been surprising to me that no platform has really tried to unify these yet.
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Bluesky without Bluesky PBC

The ATProto protocol takes the software that runs a social networking app, and splits that up into separate components. We are now seeing the first results of this.
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User agency and governance