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💙 Season’s greetings to all the Fediverse moderators, admins, and community builders.

Thank you for the time, care, and emotional labour you give to keeping online spaces safer, fairer, and more humane.

Your work often goes unseen, but it truly matters […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
💙 Season’s greetings to all the Fediverse moderators, admins, and community builders.

Thank you for the time, care, and emotional labour you give to keeping online spaces safer, fairer, and more humane.

Your work often goes unseen, but it truly matters […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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final post of the year about bluesky and atproto, with some thoughts on what im expecting for 2026

https://leaflet.connectedplaces.online/3mao4mpv35c22
ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections - Connected Places
Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.
leaflet.connectedplaces.online
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Fediverse Report 147 - this week's #fediverse news:

Threads is putting their fediverse integration on maintenance mode after it has seen very little use, signalling the end to a tumultuous period for the fediverse. Zuckerberg's belief in decentralised social networking, saying in 2023 that he […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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At the Fediverse track at SFSCon last month, Johannes Ernst spoke about:

From the Fediverse to the Open Social Web: Towards the Digital Freedom to Subscribe, Communicate and Interact Across the Entire Web

Recording and other talks: https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List

vive dot im

https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

#sw_isac_advisory
about.iftas.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List

gs dot leftic dot club

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#sw_isac_advisory
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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v1.112 is live!

We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.

Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.

Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I just sent the 1,000th report of an account created by a Russian state-sponsored contractor building a network of accounts all across the Fediverse, simply to regurgitate pro-Russian sentiment in the hopes of being scooped up by LLMs to seed their responses when asked about Russia, Ukraine, the […]
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mastodon.iftas.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
social[.]5th[.]ro is a free speech/minimal moderation and SEO advertorial farming business, connected to a WordPress plugin that provides "Auto Boosting" to its customers - which requires third party service accounts.

Be on the lookout for accounts being registered for this purpose by the […]
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mastodon.iftas.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS DNI List

parcero[.]casa
tsundere[.]love

https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-dni-list/

#sw_isac_advisory
about.iftas.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Fediverse Report 146 - this week's #fediverse news

- @peertube releases PeerTube v8, focusing on making the software more accessible to organisations and institutions
- @bonfire reaches their crowdfunding goal, and a short explainer of what the software actually is, and why it confuses people
- […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115689198997943088

a long analysis and response to @Mastodon's call for digital sovereignty. How open social protocols provide the European Commission with an opportunity for digital sovereignty, but that this […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm getting a lot of "please use the Mastodon report function to tell us about the Russian disinformation accounts we are hosting".

With all due respect, if you have three or more, I'm not sitting here and clicking through each and every account to create a report, you're going to get a DM or […]
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mastodon.iftas.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Good news everyone! We hit our first milestone: maintenance is 100% funded. Thank you all ❤️

Next up: unlock the stretch goal to co‑design federated groups: community‑owned spaces to organise across the fediverse, with no server or platform lock‑in.

Read about why this matters and how it can […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Mayel de Borniol and Ivan Minutillo spoke about:

Bonfire: Public Interest Social Networks

https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/

#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb #bonfire
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Fediverse Report #145 - this week's #fediverse news:

- @holos is a project currently in development that allows you to run an #activitypub server on your phone
- More on Threads' user statistics, which do indicate the platform's popularity in Asia […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Australia's eSafety Act comes into force on December 10. Here's a guide for federated service providers including some practical advice on how to demonstrate good faith compliance.

For now, no federated services are on the list for enforcement, but being prepared is easy, simple, and way better […]
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mastodon.iftas.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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New: ATmosphere Report 145, with collections of links to interesting #atproto stuff for November

This time, all the links are on-protocol, as a Semble.so collection, with a custom page that also shows you comments on Leaflet and posts on Bluesky

https://traverse.connectedplaces.online/
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS DNI List

gimmeloli[.]cc

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about.iftas.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List

formosa[.]aspa[.]idv[.]tw
todon[.]ploud[.]fr

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about.iftas.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Fediverse Report 144 - this week's #fediverse news:

@newsmast launches news app for the Bristol Cable that combines local news with fediverse integrated news feeds, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR

https://connectedplaces.online/fediverse-report-144/
connectedplaces.online
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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this weeks ATmosphere/bluesky news, with:

how Eurosky helped show that the atproto ecosystem is bigger than just Bluesky,
Bluesky doing dev grants,
and how Gander is thinking about creating cultural sovereignty with their platform

https://leaflet.connectedplaces.online/3m6kaze4y3s2i
ATmosphere Report - #144 - Connected Places
Bluesky grants, on Eurosky conference, and how Gander is thinking about cultural sovereignty
leaflet.connectedplaces.online
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List

abyss[.]fun
liberdon[.]com

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#sw_isac_advisory
about.iftas.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM