#TheFediverse, a #decentralised #network of interconnected #socialmedia platforms, offers a potential path to digital sovereignty for #Canadians.

🇨🇦 While it provides user choice and data control, challenges like funding, user adoption, and content moderation persist.

🚀 Despite these hurdles, proponents believe the Fediverse’s open-source nature and potential for user empowerment make it a worthwhile endeavour.

👉 https://betakit.com/can-canada-find-digital-sovereignty-in-the-fediverse/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

#Thefediverse is a #decentralised #socialmedia network where users can interact across different platforms and servers.

🙌 It offers advantages like increased #resilience against censorship and enhanced user #privacy.

🎭 While it could simplify #contentcreation and audience growth for #influencers, it still requires #creators to tailor #content to each platform.

👉 https://mashable.com/article/what-is-the-fediverse?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

#Punks are coming!! …and Meta is afraid of a little #federation.
"In #theFediverse and #Bluesky there is so far no possibility of #monetization. And at least that won't happen in the Fediverse. That's why these content creators have no interest in leaving the commercial networks. And the mainstream will stay where there is the “good” content.
Likewise, many bands, labels and fanzines have no desire or the resources to serve one more social media channel and therefore remain where they are. In addition, there are also many more users in the commercial networks, so that the promotion reaches many more people there.
You don't have to change completely, but just trying something new shouldn't hurt! Will you change the world? Probably not. But do the corporations get less money through the advertising that you don't get displayed? Yes. It won't affect one person, but the mass does it.
And as described above, #Meta sees #Pixelfed as a danger for #Instagram and blocks every link on #Facebook to Pixelfed instances."

https://www.plastic-bomb.eu/2025/was-ist-das-fediverse/

"#ICE joined #Bluesky as part of a wave of Trump Administration accounts that were created last November, as an apparent intimidation tactic against a network that was perceived to be largely left-wing.
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For #Mastodon, this is in some ways an endorsement of #thefediverse model. Both communities and individuals can choose not to connect with other communities and accounts that they find harmful."

https://werd.io/on-ice-verification-and-presence-as-harm/

#TheFediverse: “It’s lovely! If only there was an #app…”
She does not want a “protocol”. She does not want to hear about "the Fediverse”. She just wants that feed on her phone without a homework assignment."

https://jaz.co.uk/2026/01/13/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-thousand-ways-to-join-it/