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FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

How to build a fediverse community when bots are indistinguishable from humans on applications to join?
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FR#167 – Change

On coordination in a decentralised network, and the European Social Stack declaration.
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FR#166 – No Change

Many people in Europe see the open social web as a path to digital sovereignty. This week demonstrated a problem: the assumption that European governments actually want to be sovereign.
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FR#165 – Fediverse News May 2026

On overview of all the news in the fediverse for the last month.
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FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation

This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
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FR#163 – Decrypting Matrix

On the convergence towards private data on social networking protocols, and the connection to Matrix

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

FR#161 – Conference Edition

FR#160 – Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers

FR#159 – Sovereign Tech Agency funds Mastodon

FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

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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Fediverse Report – #146

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