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This week, we map the visual layer of the fediverse with current numbers (June 2026): Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube, and ... Flickr?
Pixelfed: ~100K MAU across 700 servers. @dansup has been building it for eight years, mostly alone, turning down VC offers and funding it through a Kickstarter that raised CA$138K for a nonprofit foundation.
Loops: federated short-form video, also by dansup. mid-4,000s
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A reef isn't a single organism. Things settle where conditions suit them, and the substrate they share is what makes them a reef and not a scattering of unrelated lifeforms.
ActivityPub is that substrate. The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon series is complete. We published four posts about some of what's growing on it:
1. The microblogging platforms that aren't Mastodon: Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friend
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The closing post in the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" maps forums, social reading, and music, the formats that don't fit the microblog.
The Threadiverse (Fediverse's answer to Reddit): Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin and PieFed .
Forums that predate federation: NodeBB rewrote its core so every new forum federates by default. Discourse ships it as an opt-in, per-category plugin.
Both were built years ago to replac
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Dug into the ActivityPub platforms beyond Mastodon with current FediDB numbers (June 2026): Misskey and its fork family, Pleroma and Akkoma, Friendica, GoToSocial, and the Threadiverse.
Misskey's custom emoji culture runs deeper than it sounds. Instances maintain hand-drawn reaction libraries that federate across the network. The closest analogue is early Slack workspace emoji culture, but federat
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This week, we map the visual layer of the fediverse with current numbers (June 2026): Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube, and ... Flickr?
Pixelfed: ~100K MAU across 700 servers. @dansup has been building it for eight years, mostly alone, turning down VC offers and funding it through a Ki…
What happens to your followers, your handle, and your posts, when you decide to leave the instance your account lives on?
On the Fediverse, leaving is a move: followers transfer through the Move activity, your follows/lists/blocks export a…
This one is a little different than what we usually cover. We also talk about cockroaches and their resilience.
But first, in local news - The Stud, San Francisco's oldest queer bar, lost its Instagram account access the day before Dore Al…
A reef isn't a single organism. Things settle where conditions suit them, and the substrate they share is what makes them a reef and not a scattering of unrelated lifeforms.
ActivityPub is that substrate. The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon seri…
The closing post in the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" maps forums, social reading, and music, the formats that don't fit the microblog.
The Threadiverse (Fediverse's answer to Reddit): Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin and PieFed .
Forums that predate feder…
This week, we cover the writing layer of the fediverse: Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard.
Text was ActivityPub's first real workload, but these platforms didn't all arrive at federation the same way.
Ghost: …
Dug into the ActivityPub platforms beyond Mastodon with current FediDB numbers (June 2026): Misskey and its fork family, Pleroma and Akkoma, Friendica, GoToSocial, and the Threadiverse.
Misskey's custom emoji culture runs deeper than it so…
New post: Nostr and the Protocol Bridges.
Nostr departs from ActivityPub and AT Protocol at the identity layer: your account is a cryptographic key pair, not a server account. Every action (post, follow, reaction, profile update) is a sign…
Meta promised fediverse federation. They delivered it. Then went quiet.
As of early 2025: 25,900 Threads accounts had opted in — out of 200 million users. Only ~800 had actually followed a Mastodon account.
The bridge is real. The crossing…
Ghost is reporting issues with posting and updating pages:
https://ghoststatus.org/incidents/01KT1RMYSQQX35X59G899Q160W
#ghostCMS #fediverse
Some of you remember the 2024 Bridgy Fed consent dust‑up; others (like me) arrived later or were hanging out in other corners of the fediverse.
We just published a piece that tries to lay out the whole thing in one place: how AT Protocol …
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Just a recap of our "Exploring Mastodon" mini-series that wrapped up last week: 4 posts on how the open social web actually works — from what federation even means to the governance mechanics that determine what you see and who you can rea…
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