You want to leave the instance your account lives on. There are various reasons why you could make such a decision. Maybe the admin made a call you disagree with or maybe the instance is shutting down. What happens to your followers, your handle, and your […] [Original post on techhub.social]

This is a little different than what we usually cover. It's about the resilience of cockroaches. On 23 July, India's Cyber Crime Coordination Centre sent GitHub an order to disable three repositories: the Bitchat project, its Android build, and its release […] [Original post on techhub.social]

A reef isn't a single organism. Things settle where conditions suit them, and the substrate they share is what makes them a reef and not a scatter of unrelated life. ActivityPub is that substrate. The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon series is complete — four posts […] [Original post on techhub.social]

The closing post in the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" maps forums, social reading, and music, the formats that don't fit the microblog. The Threadiverse (Fediverse's answer to Reddit): Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin and PieFed (created by Rimu - @rimu). Forums that predate […] [Original post on techhub.social]

This week, we cover the writing layer of the fediverse: Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard. Text was ActivityPub's first real workload, but these platforms didn't all arrive at federation the same way. Ghost: a UK non-profit that […] [Original post on techhub.social]

This week, we map the visual layer of the fediverse with current numbers (June 2026): Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube, and ... Flickr? Pixelfed: ~100K MAU across 700 servers. @dansup has been building it for eight years, mostly alone, turning down VC offers and […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Dug into the ActivityPub platforms beyond Mastodon with current FediDB numbers (June 2026): Misskey and its fork family, Pleroma and Akkoma, Friendica, GoToSocial, and the Threadiverse. Misskey's custom emoji culture runs deeper than it sounds. Instances […] [Original post on techhub.social]

New post: Nostr and the protocol bridges. Three independently designed protocols. one emerging open social layer. Did you know Vine is being revived as a nostr app called diVine? And that it is going to federate with Loops/ActivityPub? Find out more: New […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Meta promised fediverse federation. They delivered it. Then went quiet. As of early 2025: 25,900 Threads accounts had opted in — out of 200 million users. Only ~800 had actually followed a Mastodon account. The bridge is real. The crossing is optional. New […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Ghost is reporting issues with posting and updating pages: https://ghoststatus.org/incidents/01KT1RMYSQQX35X59G899Q160W #ghostCMS #fediverse

Some of you remember the 2024 Bridgy Fed consent dust‑up; others (like me) arrived later or were hanging out in other corners of the fediverse. We just published a piece that tries to lay out the whole thing in one place: how AT Protocol and ActivityPub are […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Just a recap of our "Exploring Mastodon" mini-series that wrapped up last week: 4 posts on how the open social web actually works — from what federation even means to the governance mechanics that determine what you see and who you can reach. → What the #$*! […] [Original post on techhub.social]

A PeerTube instance rejected my account application recently. Reason: they're "highly opposed to AI, including education on how to use AI-assisted tooling and selfhosting." Last line: "you might want to try a different instance." I'm now on spectra.video […] [Original post on techhub.social]

I wrote what Mastodon actually feels like from the inside of a specific community — not the structural case (that was part 1), but what shared context does to what you can write. some of it is easy to show: → a post on mastodon.scot about independence referendum discourse doesn't explain what […]

federated mind is launching: a publication about AI tools, open protocols, and creator economics. thesis: creators should monetize where the reach is today (mainstream platforms) while building real ownership on the open web. both are real. we cover: AI […] [Original post on techhub.social]