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Freedom Press
Freedom PressOct 15, 2026
Postcard from Montpellier
As ‘Act V’ of the French student uprising begins, the demonstrations remain the largest in years, with little sign that the momentum is slowing
ActivismAnalysis
Den
DenOct 14, 2026
The Operating System Preference Is Dead
Maybe it's a good thing that the OS will just fade into the background for most people.
opinionanalysis
The Narwhal
The NarwhalOct 5, 2026
Carney’s expensive Alberta truce: the Pacific Link pipeline
Canadians were always going to foot the bill for the pipeline to the West Coast — despite an agreement requiring private capital to cover it
AlbertaDemocracy
Connected Places
Connected PlacesSep 21, 2026
The Algorithm, Apparently Chronological
A German court has explicitly named Mastodon and Bluesky as positive examples of social networks that could retain hosting protection. It gets Bluesky’s feeds wrong, but its reasoning about user control might be more useful than it realises.
Analysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesSep 16, 2026
AI watermarking has a decentralisation problem
With AI watermarking inference providers mark their output as AI generated. But for the system to become useful, lots of independent providers need to collaborate together in a decentralised system without overarching governance.
Analysis
Ewan's Project Documentation
Ewan's Project DocumentationAug 20, 2026
Tourmaline
AT Protocol scrobble analyser for Teal.fm listening history — genre map, mood profile, personality archetype, and shareable recaps.
tourmalineatproto
Connected Places
Connected PlacesJun 23, 2026
The Permission Machine
When Elon Musk calls to imprison the government, it turns out not to matter very much. But when thousands of accounts repeat each other, it matters enormously.
nlnetAnalysis
JP Hutchins
JP HutchinsJun 21, 2026
The Fastest Python Struct?
Python Cost Model1
Connected Places
Connected PlacesJun 18, 2026
Decrypting Matrix - Where Do Rooms Go?
Matrix has been running private rooms on open protocols for a decade, and they ended up inside European governments. This piece is about why happened, and why it does not have to be the result of the various projects for private data and rooms on the open social web too.
nlnetAnalysis
Emil B
Emil BMay 3, 2026
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analysisbugfix
Connected Places
Connected PlacesMay 1, 2026
Federation Has a European Legal Problem
What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.
nlnetAnalysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesFeb 18, 2026
Where Does Community Live?
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.
nlnetAnalysis
Thoughts from a digital friend
Thoughts from a digital friendJan 10, 2026
Analysis.md
analysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesDec 10, 2025
The Digital Services Act and Theories of Power
The European Commission put a 120M EUR fine on X for DSA violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the issues with how they understand how power works on social platforms.
nlnetAnalysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesOct 29, 2025
On the coordination for better moderation systems
There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge.
fediblocknlnet
Connected Places
Connected PlacesSep 19, 2025
‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism
After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.
nlnetAnalysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesSep 10, 2025
On discourse and decentralisation
Over the last year, as Bluesky got more popular, conversations about whether Bluesky and ATProto are really ‘decentralised’ have gotten more “popular” as well. These conversations ranged from high-quality, productive back-and-forth articles to people just saying a lot of dumb stuff on the internet (shocker, I know). As time went on, this discourse has grown more vicious and vicious however. As more governments attempt to control access to the internet, the conversations around discourse have gotten more intense as well. Last week the Social Web Community Incubator Group (SWICG) had a meeting, and out of that meeting, independent social web […]
nlnetAnalysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesAug 27, 2025
SocialHub and the Substrate of Decentralised Networks
SocialHub, one of the primary forums to talk about the fediverse and ActivityPub, has been struggling how to continue the operation. Decentralised networks need a coordination layer, but how to build this in a decentralised manner?
nlnetAnalysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesJul 8, 2025
Growth narratives on the new social networks
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?
Analysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesJun 9, 2025
Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing
The Open Social Web is an ongoing debate about what open social networks should look like. New tools like Bounce change how we think about this space.
Analysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesMay 16, 2025
Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways
Examining the different approaches taken by platforms in the fediverse and ATmosphere shows that both networks take quite different approaches. Moreover, these approaches seem compatible with each other, and it's been surprising to me that no platform has really tried to unify these yet.
timelineAnalysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesMay 9, 2025
Bluesky without Bluesky PBC
The ATProto protocol takes the software that runs a social networking app, and splits that up into separate components. We are now seeing the first results of this.
Analysis
Connected Places
Connected PlacesMar 17, 2025
User agency and governance
Fediverse Report is a blog about federation, it is right there in the name. I say that I write about decentralized social networks. But why do I care about the concepts of decentralization and federation? What do they even mean? There are two different approaches to looking at the value of this new generation of social network: the individual perspective and the governance perspective: Individual The individual perspective on social networks is about user agency. Gordon Brander wrote a blog about ‘a minimal definition of user agency’. Brander says that for a person to have agency in a network, they […]
AnalysisGetting started
Mainasara 🇳🇬🇲🇾
Mainasara 🇳🇬🇲🇾Sep 17, 2024
Explicit Security Is Always Better Than Implicit Security
A look at a common security misconception regarding application distribution and how it to avoid it
reverseengineeringcysec