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FR#165 – Fediverse News May 2026

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr165-fediverse-news-for-may-2026/

Published: June 3, 2026 15:11

On overview of all the news in the fediverse for the last month.

FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/

Published: May 28, 2026 16:40

This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

FR#163 – Decrypting Matrix

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr163-decrypting-matrix/

Published: May 20, 2026 15:20

On the convergence towards private data on social networking protocols, and the connection to Matrix

FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr162-eu-regulation-wont-save-open-social-networks/

Published: May 13, 2026 16:55

The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.

FR#161 – Conference Edition

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edition/

Published: May 6, 2026 17:44

How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.

Federation Has a European Legal Problem

https://connectedplaces.online/federation-has-a-european-legal-problem/

Published: May 1, 2026 17:11

What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.

FR#160 – Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr160-everyone-wants-servers-and-nobody-wants-servers/

Published: April 23, 2026 15:48

What makes a social network resilient?

FR#159 – Sovereign Tech Agency funds Mastodon

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr159-sovereign-tech-agency-funds-mastodon/

Published: April 15, 2026 15:04

Mastodon has received a 600k grant by the Sovereign Tech Agency, and Surf has launched.

FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

Published: April 9, 2026 14:14

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.

Reflections on AtmosphereConf

https://connectedplaces.online/reflections-on-atmosphereconf/

Published: April 3, 2026 17:20

A reflection on AtmosphereConf, understanding this network as a subculture, joy, and what "We Can Just Do Things" actually means

The Purpose of Protocols

https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

Published: March 18, 2026 16:33

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/

Published: March 12, 2026 17:19

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.