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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

Older weekly reports

Fediverse Report – #136

Fediverse Report – #135

Fediverse Report – #134

Bluesky Report – #133

Fediverse Report – #133

Fediverse Report – #132

Fediverse Report – #131

ATmosphere Report – #130

Fediverse Report – #129

Bluesky Report – #128

Fediverse Report – #128

Bluesky Report – #127

Fediverse Report – #127

Fediverse Report – #126

Bluesky Report – #125

Fediverse Report – #125

ATmosphere Report – #124

Bluesky Report – #123

Fediverse Report – #123

ATmosphere Report – #122

Fediverse Report – #122

Bluesky Report – #121

Fediverse Report – #121

ATmosphere Report – #120

Fediverse Report – #120

Bluesky Report – #119