Fediverse Report – #113
When FediForum got cancelled a few weeks ago, I heard from multiple participants that they were planning to showcasing some new features or products that they’ve been working on. The sudden last-minute cancellation has caused uncertainty on how to proceed, and there has not been a new date set for FediForum (nor is it clear in what format it will continue, if any). However, by and large participants have decided not to showcase or present their work outside of FediForum. This shows the influential role that FediForum plays in the fediverse development ecosystem. It is important avenue for developers to showcase their work to the rest of the developer community, with no clear replacement for it. As such, the news for the fediverse is especially slow this week.
The News
Two papers on the fediverse came out recently: Labour pains: Content moderation challenges in Mastodon growth talks about the challenges that moderators face on fediverse instances. Leading the Mastodon Herd: Analysing the Traits of Influential Leaders on a Decentralised Social Media Platform finds a relation between negative sentiment and influence on the network.
- Ghost now allows publications to set their own custom usernames. Staff user profiles is coming as well, but “is still a ways off”.
- Decentralizing Schemes – Tim Bray
- Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says that a viral Facebook post in Taiwan lead to some 20k new signups over 2 days.
- Fediverse House Highlight Reel, SXSW 2025
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- If I ran Mastodon – Ben Werdmuller
- Why Is Mastodon Using So Much Storage? – Fedihost tutorials
- An update from the Catodon project (a fork of a fork of Misskey), which is still on hiatus.
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