Connected Places

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Connected Places gives you an in-depth overview of the world of decentralised social networks.

I write a weekly newsletter about the ATmosphere, a weekly newsletter about the fediverse, as well as the background articles on the networks.

Connected Placeshttps://connectedplaces.online
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Show threadConnected Places2d ago
oh and ofcourse the opportunity to tag @Curia again to say that your ruling sucks and you should feel bad about it
Show threadConnected Places2d ago
considering that the eYou people (and the WSocial people) seem to have pretty good connections with the @EUCommission , this is what you could call 'slightly suboptimal'
Connected Places2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116500458153780336

the eYou people, a closedsource european twitterclone that is now using didplc for identity, seem to be reading my posts and have figured out the fairly horrifying implications of it

Connected Places3d ago

ai bots are overwhelming the signup application process for fediverse servers. so how do you build community when you cannot distinguish between an LLM and a human anymore?

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr168-llms-join-the-fediverse/

FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

How to build a fediverse community when bots are indistinguishable from humans on applications to join?

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Connected Places4d ago
Connected Places4d ago

turns out, when elon musk posts "imprison the government," it doesn't matter much. but thousands of accounts repeating each other does

so if permission for violence was never really coming from the owner, what happens on a network that has no owner at all?

https://connectedplaces.online/the-permission-machine/

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.

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Connected Places4d ago

turns out, when elon musk posts "imprison the government," it doesn't matter much. but thousands of accounts repeating each other does

so if permission for violence was never really coming from the owner, what happens on a network that has no owner at all?

https://connectedplaces.online/the-permission-machine/

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.

connectedplaces.online
Connected PlacesJun 18

new in my series about @matrix: Where Do Rooms Go?

In which I try the answer the question that kept intriguing me: Why did Matrix end up being deployed largely by European governments and militaries?

https://connectedplaces.online/decrypting-matrix-where-rooms-go/

Decrypting Matrix – Where 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.

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Connected PlacesJun 18
hannah aubryJun 18

The concentration of power in Silicon Valley happened partly because we let it. We accepted a few platforms as inevitable. We built our communities there because that’s where everyone was. It wasn’t because their technology is better. It was a choice—made again and again by the people on those platforms, by investors, and by policymakers.

A different choice is possible, but it requires that those of us building alternatives actually believe what we say about cooperation. It means assuming good faith from people building different projects. It means investing in infrastructure that doesn’t benefit us alone.

We, the builders of the open social web, are the only ones who can make that choice.

It starts with deciding that our mission matters more than winning alone.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/why-the-social-web-must-work-together/

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon

Why the social web must work together

Looking back at an exciting few weeks for the open social web

Mastodon Blog
Connected PlacesJun 18
Connected PlacesJun 17

new from me: on the European Social Stack declaration, and how decentralised networks without owners need to build their own systems for coordination

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr167-change/

FR#167 – Change

On coordination in a decentralised network, and the European Social Stack declaration.

connectedplaces.online
Connected PlacesJun 17

new from me: on the European Social Stack declaration, and how decentralised networks without owners need to build their own systems for coordination

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr167-change/

FR#167 – Change

On coordination in a decentralised network, and the European Social Stack declaration.

connectedplaces.online