Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon
Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon
Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked
Look, I think Ghost is a really great publishing platform. But after dogfooding their Fediverse integration for six months, I’m realizing there’s still a lot missing. With their blog dormant, I’m left to wonder: is development still happening?
The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce. Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.
Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy
For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising. It can speak both ActivityPub and AT Protocol, offers a ton of interesting features and customization, and focuses on making an incredibly fun experience.
Decentered S2E5: Anuj Ahooja and Ryan Barrett from A New Social
This was a really great interview we had with the team from A New Social. We talked about bridging, being able to migrate data across different protocols, some of the team’s latest ongoing efforts, and a long rant about where the network is, and where we hope it will go.
Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
Relay, By We Distribute: Something Brewing
We Distribute recently launched a dedicated weekly newsletter that aims at rounding up a lot of things happening around the Fediverse and wider Social Web, and adds other publications and community voices to amplify them. This is our very first issue!
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
This was initially demoed at FediCon 2025, but CrowdBucks is an open source, self-hostable fundraising system that allows people to financially support one another. You use your existing Fediverse account to hold a fundraiser, and can also donate to other people’s fundraisers as well. The form factor is kind of similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.
Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?