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Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time

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Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (2022)

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Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

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Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday

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How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

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Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances

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How much decentralisation is too much?

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Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser

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Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub

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Mastodon: Servers, Good and Bad

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Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York

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Vivaldi Social, your new federated social-networking home

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Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover

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ActivityPub Overview

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Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server

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Exploring Mastodon

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We've hit 1M monthly active users

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Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?

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Searchable List of Mastodon Servers

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The Many Branches of the Fediverse

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Taking a Look at Mastodon

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Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having

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Bonfire – working to build safer, more open federated tools and communities

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Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon

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Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations

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Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter

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Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance

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EU Joins Mastodon Social Network, Sets Up Its Own Server

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Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight

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Mastodon for Android

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Mastodon: A free, open-source, and decentralized Twitter not owned by anybody

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Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits

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How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link

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Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus

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FediDB – Developer Tools for ActivityPub

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Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

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Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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FunkWhale: Decentralized Music Server

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Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform

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ActivityPub Could Be the Future

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ActivityPub Could Be the Future

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ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

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How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

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Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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FreshRSS – A free, self-hostable aggregator

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Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch

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I inspected the mastodon.social website

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How Does Mastodon Work?

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Why ActivityPub is the future

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IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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A free XMPP server powered by green energy and hosted in Germany

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Peepeth: Unstoppable Microblogging

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ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol

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Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

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ActivityPub: a federated social web standard

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Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus

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Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy

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Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account

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Stellar account with more than one million stellars

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Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io

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There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress

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Weapons of Mass Assignment: Patio11 on Diaspora

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Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Diaspora pledges have just crossed the $50,000 mark

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Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested

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My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy

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You can't follow me

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Diamond Subpixel Arrangement Simulator

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Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software

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How Does Bluesky Work?

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Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform

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Can we get more decentralised than the Fediverse?

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Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation

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Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media

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Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Threads on Mastodon and the bright future of the Fediverse

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AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank

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Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

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Nuclear material left in "Swap Shop" at UK Hacker camp emfcamp

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EPA releases report on Apple's hazardous waste violations in urban silicon fab

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"Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"

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The Threads Creator Paradox

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Apple. Apple Please

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EU ChatControl is back on the agenda

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