#COSCUP here we go! Cc @newsmast

#COSCUP Social Web track kicking off with insightful and stimulating presentations from Roro Park and @jihyeok - plus an impromptu session from @jaz as a bonus!

"In my mind, both can be wildly successful, it's not one or the other. atproto doesn't need to eat ActivityPub to be successful, or vice versa." - @toni.bsky.team LFG 👏🏼

The Verge@theverge.com · 2w ago

CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...

Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge. https://www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating/

Dub in the forest at #DWebCamp - with the ultimate sound system from Berlin. @samvie thank you for so many introductions - and to everyone at C-base for bringing their cool stuff to camp 🏕️

Blues Brothers at #DWebCamp ! Thank you @tommi for inviting me - it’s been so much fun! What a vibe - and so many fascinating, change-making people 💚

Here's what's going in my bag (and what's not) as I pack for "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies" at #DWebCamp on Thursday: 🎨 Six cans of Day-Glo paint. Not allowed on the plane 😬 so a fresh order of graffiti paint is shipping to Alte Holle. 📋 Three […] [Original post on backend.newsmast.org]

RE: https://chaos.social/@samvie/116807362191849556 Looking forward to spending time in the forest!

@matthew, @matrix co-founder and @element CEO/CTO, is coming to DWeb Camp to present “Peer-to-Peer Matrix: A New Hope” https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYHXHW/ We’ll have many more Matrix-related activities and talks! 🤩 💡 Check them out here ➡️ […] [Original post on social.coop]

🔥 The Bonfire Social 1.0.5 release candidate is out! This one brings archipelago mode (opt-in, allow-list federation for tightly-knit communities and networks), a more lightweight search backend (see changelog for migration steps), broadcasting announcements, another embeddable widget […]

Now that I've dug my hands deep into the Mastodon core, it looks like it's definitely possible to get the original home instance counts for federated posts, not just your own server's local tally. For boosts and favourites, recent versions of Mastodon […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

I've been slow to adopt the Fediverse logo ⁂ as I didn't want to add to any unnecessary protocol/platform flame war nonsense, but now that the legendary @rude1.blacksky.team is touting it I'm hereby all in. Will I get it tattooed somewhere on my body a la @tommi ? ⁂ Maybe...

I co-wrote this with @WillRobinson highlighting the recent Scottish election as a sign of what is coming our way: “The next generation of election disinformation may not come from a social media post at all. It may come from the answer.” https://substack.com/home/post/p-202048579

A Scottish Post: The New Election Threat: Disinformation Inside the Answer

For years we have worried about election disinformation spreading through social media, but now it's coming through search.

willrobinson.substack.com

👏🏻👏🏻 “The deepest function of sovereignty is that a government defends its own continued existence and its exclusive right to authorise force. What we watched instead was governments declining to do so, in public, with the world's richest man openly calling for their imprisonment.”

Laurens@laurenshof.online · 2mo ago

new from me: on this week's riots in Belfast, Musk, and European states openly declining to defend their own sovereignty. What does it even mean to build digital sovereignty infrastructure when states themselves don't want to be sovereign? connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

Wow - we are less than 100 users away from 10,000 on Find Out Social. Can you help us break 10k? Reply in the comments and I’ll send you the info to join us!

Overnight the @newsmast backed Find Out Social added 3,000 users in a few hours, onboarding one user every second at times. All driven by a Mr Global Facebook post. Let’s go! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17TaRGWXVP/?mibextid=wwXIfr

RE: https://backend.newsmast.org/@newsmast/116699386342655110 I first met the folks at Newsmast last year at the International Journalism Festival. The work they’ve done between then and now to build social spaces that provide real value to newsrooms, movements, and communities is astonishing […]

🌅 30 sunrises left until DWeb Camp: Root Systems. 🏕️ From the 8th to the 12th of July, join us at Alte Hölle to explore the latest in the decentralisation ecosystem, and to shape its future. 🎟️ Tickets still available → https://dwebcamp.org ← #DWeb #DWebCamp […] [Original post on social.coop]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/116708702343311570 A great piece! Includes support for the European Social Stack initiative and the call for “shared infrastructure and shared protocols” https://european.social/

So, last night was fun. I never imagined that I would ever get the joy of playing Mario Kart (among other party games) with legends of the Social Web like @tommi @ben and @john but here we are 🏎️ Thanks to everyone who came along to our (really, it was […] [Original post on backend.newsmast.org]

Huge congratulations to the winners of the first ever Open Social Awards @newsmastfoundation.org @blackskyweb.xyz and @sill.social

Wait, I know those folks on stage!!! Huge applause and congrats to @newsmast , well deserved winners. They're doing great stuff and I for one love the great app they put together for our community here on Twt! #PubConf2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116697945683857980 FediForum is one of the supporters of the European Social Stack declaration that was published today. in the cooperative spirit of FediForum, we are glad that so many -- often competing -- organizations are coming together to the common […]

Mastodon@mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Following on from the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) that was announced this week… Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the Europe Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #SocialWeb and […]

Huge huge huge congrats to @michael & the @newsmast team for winning the Open Social Awards! And to the excellence award winners: @tylrfishr for sill.social & @rude1.blacksky.team & team for @blackskyweb.xyz! Couldn't imagine folks who deserve this more 👏

Fediverse news for May 2026 everything in fediverse needs that stood out to me from the last month, such as Lemmy gearing up for a 1.0 release, WordPress becoming a full open social web platform, and how a Russian botnet is active on the fediverse as well as a first look at the @EUCommission […]

Fully endorse this article from Newsmast. They are doing crucial work in this space and everyone that cares about the open social web should learn from their efforts. Expecially like this: "The web began with connections. Then it outsourced search to Google, and social to Meta, X and TikTok. We […]

Here's the call to action @newsmast is taking to @publicspaces: Make connected community spaces our mission for the year ahead. Community building is hard. Connected community building is harder. But it's worth it. For technologists: add this alongside your building. For policy people: let's […]

‘No Regulation Alone will Safeguard Democratic Debate —It all depends on A Collective, Collaborative & Coordinated Effort!’ Thank you, #EuroDIG for the chance to present a 2 minute pitch on the topic 'Platforms’ Accountability to Strengthen the Digital Public Sphere’! #Fediverse #Eumans […]

RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116652198665234570 Cannot tell you what a difference this group makes to the open social web. This is "load bearing" for he fediverse, and deserves and will wisely use whatever donations you can send on...

IFTAS@iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

If you value this work and want to see our safety resources stay online, independent, and active, please consider joining our Power of One campaign. We are looking for 500 supporters to contribute just 1 (£, €, $) a month. Small change, big difference […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

If you value this work and want to see our safety resources stay online, independent, and active, please consider joining our Power of One campaign. We are looking for 500 supporters to contribute just 1 (£, €, $) a month. Small change, big difference […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]