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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 – #119

ATmosphere Report – #118

Fediverse Report – #118

Bluesky Report – #117

Fediverse Report – #117

ATmosphere Report – #116

Fediverse Report – #116

Bluesky Report – #115

ATmosphere Report – #114

ATmosphere Report #33

Fediverse Report #107

ATmosphere Report #32

Fediverse Report #106

ATmosphere Report #31

Fediverse Report #105

ATmosphere Report #30

Fediverse Report #104

ATmosphere Report #29

Fediverse Report #103

ATmosphere Report #28

Fediverse Report #102

ATmosphere Report #27

Fediverse Report #101

ATmosphere Report #26

Fediverse Report #100

ATmosphere Report #25