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Connected Places

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Essay

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On discourse and decentralisation

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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.
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Welcome to Connected Places

Fediverse Report has relaunched as Connected Places!
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Decentralisation as a mental framework

In the Fediverse and Bluesky decentralisation is a very relevant shared mental framework. Communities take on a shared mental framework to understand a technology. This essay shares some thoughts on this shared framework