Laurens Hof

@laurenshof@indieweb.social
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I write the Fediverse Report, a news site about what is happening in the fediverse.

This is my personal account, where I share and comment on anything I find interesting.

I care about an ethical internet.

He/him. From the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

Fediverse Reportfediversereport.com
Personal websitehttps://laurenshof.online
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Matrix@wisdomchicken:matrix.org
Laurens Hof11h ago
@elena lol just checked your peertube video, and im immediately connected to 21 peers for it🥹
Laurens Hof1d ago
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Harvesting at my parents’ local farm coop
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Tim Chambers1d ago
The Seven Deadly #UX Sins of the #Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix): https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html. cc: @mastodonmigration @laurenshof @fediversenews @cheeaun @rolle @scottjenson @zeldman
The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)

So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Laurens Hof1d ago

these are the top posts I see on Threads' new fediverse feeds

10/10 no notes

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Robin Berjon6d ago
"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy *This*: - is why why the web was captured; - is why email became concentrated; - is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
Laurens Hof6d ago
@elena looking at elena
Laurens Hof6d ago
Plant boat?
Laurens HofJun 11
the third point is absolutely infuriating, but it really does seem true to me
Laurens HofJun 11
Mastodon EngineeringJun 10
We just shared our monthly engineering update from May - some big under-the-covers updates as we got ready to ship the first beta of Mastodon 4.4. Plus, a selection of links to cool projects from our community members. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/trunk-tidbits-may-2025/
Trunk & Tidbits, May 2025

News and updates from the Mastodon developers. Mastodon 4.4 beta is out, and we had a busy month with events.

Mastodon Blog
Laurens HofJun 6
Annalee Newitz 🍜Jun 6
Will they destroy us? Will they be our willing slaves? We are asking all the wrong questions about AI and robots. In my latest newsletter, I talk about why I wrote an entire novella about how to ask the right questions about building a new life form. https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/robots-are-obsessed-with-1990s-web-aesthetics/
Robots are obsessed with 1990s web aesthetics

I’m taking a break from my media studies series (you can read the first three installments here, here, and here) to talk about my forthcoming novella,...

The Hypothesis