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Short-form video might in fact be the next frontier for federated media. The dev behind a popular photo-sharing platform is diving in headfirst.

The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.

A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.

We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.

For our third episode of Decentered, we talked to Ryan Barrett, the creator of Bridgy Fed! Ryan has a lot of experience in working with a variety of decentralized social web protocols, including IndieWeb, ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and Nostr, and has a lot of interesting thoughts on making them talk to each other.

The Mixtape is an ongoing effort by We Distribute to showcase the musicians of the Fediverse and their work. Each issue is a playlist of 10 tracks centered around a theme, that our followers can vote on....

When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.

Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps...

Sora is a really cool iOS fediverse app that supports Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, and Bluesky all at once. It’s slick, has some incredibly innovative features, and is a delight to use....

This podcast has been a long-time coming. Damon, Laurens, and I have been hard at work interviewing all kinds of people building for the Fediverse, and after hours and hours of interviews, we’ve finally started publishing episodes....

Authorized Fetch (also referred to as Secure Mode in Mastodon) was recently circumvented by a stupidly easy solution: just sign your fetch requests with some other domain name.

The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.

After a long silence from the developer, project moderators stepped down. The mobile app for Kbin appears to have closed its doors.

Mastodon, we wrote this because we love you and care about you. People have been saying a lot of things, and we need to get the facts right.

A lot of musicians are looking for better, more resilient platforms for selling and distributing their work. Faircamp may be a good solution.

In a crowded space of Twitter competitors, a friendly and beloved platform closed its doors. One of the creators now runs a Mastodon instance.

We've made a special spooky playlist for Halloween! Come check out a hand-picked selection of awesome and unusual songs by Fediverse musicians!

Firefish is a new Fediverse social platform with a beautiful design, cool features, and great tools for your feed. It has a lot of potential to grow.

While Mastodon has many, many different kinds of microblogging clients, Audon dares to instead flirt with online talk spaces, and it's fantastic.

Now that WordPress supports ActivityPub, anyone know of any good AP-enabled blogs worth following?

It's now possible for WordPress blogs to use ActivityPub to talk to the rest of the Fediverse. Here's some tips and tricks to get started.

Integration between WordPress and ActivityPub has been a long time coming. It's existed in several different iterations over the years, but the latest attempt is directly sponsored by Automattic, the owners of WordPress. This article covers some basic how-tos and explains some various quirks in the integration.

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Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".

One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.

Pixelfed, an alternative to Instagram, has matured over the years. One of its biggest, most powerful features is about to touch down - federated groups. And it will be compatible with Lemmy and Kbin.

A brand new messaging app is coming to the Fediverse, and it's all thanks to the creator of Pixelfed.