Besides the main news of this week (NLnet providing grants to multiple fediverse projects, and a major new release of PeerTube, Misskey 2023 recap), lots of other news happened this week in the fediverse as well. An overview:
Mike McCue interviewed Evan Prodromou for his podcast Dot Social. The episode can be found here, Johannes Ernst wrote a thread while listening through the episode to get some of the highlights, here.
Bridgy Fed is a project to bridge the different protocols that power the open social networks. Creator Ryan Barrett is working to expand to include Bluesky, so that you can connect to accounts from Bluesky with your fediverse account (and visa versa). As work is progressing, he wrote a reintroduction to the project that explains some more background information about the project.
A longread article on the recent situation with The Bad Space, placing it in a larger historical context.
An essay that argues that scholarly societies should embrace their role as a society more than a publisher, and build upon the digital commons in the fediverse.
WeDistribute wrote a list of the 10 biggest misconceptions about Mastodon.
Radio free fedi is working towards a New Years day 24 hour stream party. Go check it out, it looks like there will be a ton of great content. If you stream on Owncast or PeerTube, you can also participate!
Lemmy gives their developer update on the work they have been doing in the last 2 weeks. Lemmy is preparing for their new release, v0.19, and the lemmy.ml server is already running the update. One of the changes is a new sorting algorithm, scaled sorting, that gives more visibility to smaller communities on Lemmy.
MarsEdit, a blog editing application for Mac, now has direct support for Mastodon.
An overview of all the other software releases for fediverse software this week.
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