Welcome to another episode of Last Week in Fediverse, where I’m experimenting with a slightly different structure. I’m trying to get more articles out directly into the fediverse with WordPress’ ActivityPub plugin, so you can also follow me laurenshof@fediversereport.com to read it all during the week when it comes out.
NLnet funding the fediverse
The NLnet foundation provides grants to an open information society, and over the years they have provided most projects on the fediverse with funding. This week NLnet announced their latest grant round, with a significant number of fediverse projects being supported. For more background on NLnet, read my interview with them. In this article I take a look at all the different projects that NLnet has funded this round.
PeerTube released their latest version
The latest version of PeerTube comes with a variety of cool new features. Two of them stand out to me, as they allow PeerTube to be used in ways that Youtube can’t. For content creators that want to give their subscribers exclusive access to content, the ability to password protect your PeerTube videos might just be a game changer. There is a lot more coming up next year with PeerTube as well, stay tuned for the announcement very soon!
Misskey 2023 recap
Misskey has had a busy year. Developer Syuilo provided an update of the year, describing the new features and how the project went from 500 daily active users in January of the year to 28.000 now. One thing that interests me is how Misskey keeps developing into it’s own unique identity within the fediverse. As it is largely Japanese, there is little overlap with the Western fediverse community.
In other news
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading. You can subscribe via email below, or laurenshof@fediversereport.com if you want to follow this blog with your fediverse account.
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