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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: a UK non-profit that funds Fedify (by @hongminhee) the framework its federation is built on. it's a publisher and a fediverse client at once, with an inbox as we
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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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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 (created by Rimu - @rimu).
Forums that predate federation: NodeBB (created by @julian) rewrote its core so every new forum federates by default.
Discourse (@Discourse) ships it as an opt-
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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 and ActivityPub are making different bets, what the bridge actually moves, and what doesn’t come along for the ride (like moderation rules).
Curious what folks
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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: a UK non-profit that funds Fedify (by @ho…
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 (created by Rimu - @rimu).
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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 do…
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…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116702758842673692
https://techhub.social/@dansup@mastodon.social/116702758992428756
New post: Nostr and the protocol bridges.
Three independently designed protocols. one emerging open social layer.
Did you know Vine is being revived as a nostr app called diVine? And that it is going to federate with Loops/ActivityPub?
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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
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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…
A PeerTube instance rejected my account application recently.
Reason: they're "highly opposed to AI, including education on how to use AI-assisted tooling and selfhosting."
Last line: "you might want to try a different instance."
I'm now o…
I wrote what Mastodon actually feels like from the inside of a specific community — not the structural case (that was part 1), but what shared context does to what you can write.
some of it is easy to show:
→ a post on mastodon.scot about …
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