Believe it or not, the Fediverse has a thriving independent art community. This week, a bunch of them are coming together to perform online.

A blog by Anuj Ahooja

Six months after an initial analysis, two Fediverse experts come back to examine where user experience has changed. Are we on the path of redemption, or repeating the same old sins?

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

Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percent...

Jay Graber is most widely known as the CEO of Bluesky PBC. In a surprising announcement, she is stepping down from the role to serve as Chief Innovation Officer.

Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features - blacksky-algorithms/atproto

One of the Social Web Foundation's initiatives for improving ActivityPub will soon be a reality for the network.

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

Welcome back! We've been on a break for the past few months, but with the new year, we're doubling down on our efforts to keep the Fediverse informed on the latest developments of the space. We've got...

What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.

Last week we posted two drafts to the IETF Data Tracker. This is the first major step towards standardizing parts of AT in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol.

We know that Bluesky has better click-through rates than any other social media platform, and that publishing independence from platforms is more important now than ever. To that effect, advocating fo...

Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

We sat down with our friends from A New Social, the nonprofit organization behind projects such as Bridgy Fed and Bounce. Joining us for the interview are A New Social's two co-founders, Anuj Ahooj...

Here's this week's roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.

Nonprofit organization Social Web Foundation is quietly focusing on building tools, libraries, and prototypes to demonstrate what ActivityPub C2S could do.

Please be gentle. This is our first time doing this kind of thing. Welcome to our first issue of Relay.

This is just a brief introduction to what Relay is, what we're planning to do, and what we hope to accomplish.

A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.

Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

Sean Tilley hosted a panel at FediCon 2025: "We Distribute Live". Sean Tilley's panelists were (from left to right): Boris Mann, Anuj Ahooja, Evan S. Prodromou, Janet Vertesi, Christopher Joseph Al...

Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to evolve. Here's what's new for the video platform.

[This document serves as a memo for investors]

Today, our podcast features an interview with an Internet OG: Evan Henshaw-Plath, aka Rabble. We talk about Twitter, Secure Scuttlebutt, and the evolution of Nostr!

Host a giveaway from a Bluesky post.

Automattic has made a new release of the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, with some key updates for remote follow functionality.