Apps for Change: four flavours

After a busy few months at the Newsmast Foundation, here’s a building in public update. Pilots full of flavour At the end of last week we pushed our first creator app to stores, and released our first professional network app for testing. With all four flavours of community app

Paths & Patches
It's our birthday!

A year ago today, the Newsmast app launched in the Fediverse. Introducing curated communities on matters of public interest. From Politics to Photography. Black Voices to Biodiversity. Social Media to Sport. Newsmast was already a year in the making, inspired, as so much has been, by the fallout from Elon

Paths & Patches

"We can have a different web, if we want it"

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.blog-pat.ch/a-different-web/

"We can have a different web, if we want it"

The run up to FediForum was hard, as we worked to pull a ton of things together. After taking a month off to recharge, this blog is back in action.  It’s almost our birthday We’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the launch of Newsmast -

Paths & Patches
We need to finish building the Fediverse Part II: Patchwork

The blog post “We need to finish building the Fediverse” set out ten building blocks to transform the Fediverse. Evan Prodromou added an extra one - making the Fediverse more social, so it’s easy to invite your friends. We’re starting work on a lot of these through Patchwork.

Patchwork Blog
Building Fediverse channels

After a run of big picture blog posts, here's a deep dive into channels on Patchwork. There's a lot going on as we all work to finish building the Fediverse. Long-form content is one big idea. Curated channels are another. Something new which we're working on with Patchwork. Channels enable

Patchwork Blog