A message to attendees at the conference of the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities (AVICC).
It’s time to stop using American, corporate controlled, social media services that are working hand in hand with the US Government to threaten our economy and sovereignty.
Join @EsquimaltBC and @TownofGibsons and sign up at https://socialbc.ca
Join the growing network of #OpenSocialWeb platforms creating a different kind of social web.
#Threads とか #BlueSky を見てると、そこのユーザーにとっては #Fediverse 
への連携とか、標準技術での #OpenSocialWeb とか全然興味の範疇じゃないんだろうな…という気がしてる
#BlueSky はまだ、分散型の可能性のひとつとして登場している（実質分散してないけど）ところがあるから知識としては知ってるけど「フェディバース？いや流行らないでしょ」みたいな空気を感じるんだよな…
（流行る流行らないという発想を前にもってきてソーシャルメディアを考える事自体が自分はあまりよくない気がしていて、そういう意味では #BlueSky よりもむしろ #mixi2 とかのほうが好意的に見える時がある。 mixi2 はぜんぜんオープンではないんだけど、なんでだろう。流行ってないからかなw 
The technology upon which Bluesky is built — the AT Protocol (or ATProto for short) — is being used to develop dozens more applications designed to work together as part of an open social web. Here are some of them.
#bluesky #atproto #opensocialweb
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/beyond-bluesky-these-are-the-apps-building-social-experiences-on-the-at-protocol/
@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch
Congrats to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost, which today announced a public beta for users to connect their publications to the fediverse. If you're in their beta, you'll be able to find, follow and interact with people and publications on platforms including Ghost, WordPress, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard and more. Get details in the blogpost here. If you want to know more about Ghost's approach to decentralization and the open social web, check out John's DotSocial conversation with @mike at the second link.
Finally, our team had a wonderful time at #SXSW on Sunday and Monday, where Flipboard and @surf hosted the first #FediverseHouse. Our CEO @mike and the whole team are 100% #TeamFediverse, and were thrilled to meet and talk to so many other open social web advocates. Here’s a feature by @Markoff for @newyorktimes, where Mike, @Gargron and @reckless1280 discuss the rise of decentralized social media, and how it can help publishers and media companies survive and thrive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html
“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by @Daojoan. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied
Yesterday at #FediverseHouse we announced
Bluesky integration, but that's not the only update Surf users will see in the latest beta.
You can now create unified home timelines incorporating Bluesky and Mastodon following feeds, Starter Packs, lists and custom feeds. And you can also use filters to exclude issues or topics you don’t want to see in your feed. Sign up for the waitlist here — and if you're currently beta testing Surf, please send your suggestions for improvements to feedback@surf.social, and bigs and issues to support@surf.social.
That's a wrap on Day 1 at #FediverseHouse. Thanks so much to all who joined Flipboard and @surf to talk all things fediverse and open social. Here's tomorrow's program — among others, @mike, @miaq and the team will be talking to Rose Wang (Bluesky), Leila Brillson (The Onion), @jasonkoebler and @samleecole (@404mediaco), @oconnell (@TexasObserver) and @pluralistic. Were you at Fediverse House today? Tell us in the comments about the most interesting conversations you heard or participated in!
@newyorktimes's veteran tech reporter @Markoff interviewed some of #TeamFediverse including @Gargron, @reckless1280 and our CEO @mike for a feature on the rise of decentralized social media. “It goes back to the original principles where the internet started out as decentralized,” Eugen Rochko told Markoff. Here's the full story [may be paywalled].
We're so excited to develop these conversations further at SXSW this weekend — check out the itinerary and sign up to join us at #FediverseHouse at the second link.
On Monday afternoon at SXSW, @pluralistic will be in conversation with @mike about building sustainable open networks that (hopefully) ward off “enshittification.” (We'll be recording this one for a future episode of the Dot Social podcast — check out all the past episodes on our PeerTube channel, @dot_social.)
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/xbve5fa0
Are you an Austin-based developer working on the open social web? If so, you’re invited to our Developer Meetup, on Sunday March 9, hosted by ActivityPub co-author @evan. You don’t need a SXSW badge to attend but we do ask that you RSVP. 
Let's see what you're building!
Are you an Austin-based developer working on the open social web? If so, you’re invited to our Developer Meetup, hosted by ActivityPub co-author @evan. You don’t need a badge to attend but we do ask that you RSVP. 
Let’s see what you’re building! https://lu.ma/bvump3m6
Today’s email in support of the #Fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb in Canada and trying to convince our governments not only to dump Twitter/X but also create their own independent platforms that Canadians can know and trust!
Phew... 
Senator @Paulatics, you have mail. 
(and thank you for your continued work on this!!)
I've reproduced the letter on my blog.
I'm speaking to DWeb Seattle this Friday on "Identity on the Open Social Web".
It's an in-person event, but yours' truly is going to present remotely, so perhaps people can also attend remotely.
Thanks @nigini for inviting me!
In correlation to the previous poll:
How vulnerable do you believe large USA-based Mastodon/Fediverse servers are to the same kind of corporate/white house manipulation or direct involvement/takeover?
For those keeping score at home, currently 83% of people responding believe Bluesky will be or already is under the influence of White House-aligned corporate social media fascists.
#Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #Blueskyy #Control #USA #USPoli #Mastodon #Fascism
https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/114043026596724236
Poll question to the full #Fediverse!
How long before Bluesky 'comes under the influence' of Musk or one of the other White House-aligned corporate social media fascists?
And to be clear, I had nothing to do with this petition and certainly not trying to take credit. I stumbled across it in my feed last night!
So excited to see MP Angus taking this up and spreading it far and wide. Next to Trudeau and Poillievre, he's probably the most influential MP on Canadian social media.
It's so great to see him promoting this and huge kudos to Justin Willcott from Calgary for the petition! The timing is..!!
I’m curious. This place has a very vocal anti-capitalist community, anytime moneys come up people shout about donations. When it comes to consent and Trust & Safety I’ve seen many people attack devs. Yet, when #Mastodon was asking for donations to fund a position it was largely crickets. #IFTAS has done great work and set out to be a great benefit to the #fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb yet they’re struggling to keep the lights on. How can that be? So many of you are always talking about donations so why are projects underfunded and servers shutting down due to lack of funding? Where are you passionate and vocal lot? https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ https://about.iftas.org/
