Stefan Bohacek: Make your website or blog fediverse-ready. “In the fediverse, there is no central authority that can verify you. Instead, you link to your fediverse profile from your website, blog, or even some of the larger platforms, like GitHub, in a way that proves that these online identities are connected and controlled by you. This then serves as one of several signals about the […]

TechCrunch: Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web. “With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters, a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.”

WordPress: Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse. “If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ll probably know the WordPress.com Reader – a calm place to catch up on the blogs you follow, without an algorithm deciding what you see. This month, we added a new Social Feeds section to the Reader. Now you can bring in the people you follow on Bluesky, on Mastodon, and across […]

TechCrunch: Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles. “On Thursday, Bluesky rolled out a new version of its app that integrates with Standard.site, a community project for building long-form content on the same underlying protocol that powers Bluesky.”

Nature: Instance-level community detection in the Mastodon federation: a graph- and content-based approach. “This study analyzes Mastodon, a prominent federated social network made of several interconnected instances, and investigates community detection at the instance level by integrating content-based edge weighting to enhance modularity maximization techniques.”

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Q&A: Ditto says social media became sterile and the internet should be fun again

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/ditto-qa-social-media-sterile/

Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/ditto-decentralized-social-platform/

TechCrunch: Indigo brings the open social web to one app. “When using Indigo, you can distinguish Bluesky from Mastodon posts in your timeline: Bluesky profiles are outlined in blue, while Mastodon profiles appear in purple. The app also includes other tools and features, including options that let users automatically scroll to the top as new posts arrive, hide NSFW content, mute users or […]

EFF: A Bridge to Somewhere: How to Link Your Mastodon, Bluesky, or Other Federated Accounts. “Think of it like a radio broadcast: you want to reach people and don’t care where they are or what device they’re using. For example, in theory, a Bluesky user can follow someone on Mastodon or Threads without having to create a Mastodon or Threads account. But these systems are still a work in […]