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FR#159 – Sovereign Tech Agency funds Mastodon

Mastodon has received a 600k grant by the Sovereign Tech Agency, and Surf has launched.
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FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.
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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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