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FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.
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FR#156 – Share Where?

On Mastodon's new Share button, and protocol ownership.
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FR#155 – Where Does Community Live – updates

A big grab bag of news, that ties into the question of 'Where Does Community Live?'
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FR#154 – Search and Community

Fediverse search engine Holos Discover shut down this week, showing structural issues how to distinguish between individual and community consent.
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FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?

With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
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FR#152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech

On the tension in the DSA, that needs Big Tech platforms to exist so it can regulate them, while the fediverse does away with large platforms altogether.

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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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