I was interviewed about how media can use new social platforms Happy that they explicitly mention why I do this work: sure, big tech bad, but the main point is that social media are collective sense making tools, and thats what makes them so extraordinarily valuable [www.svdj.nl/nieuws/stapj...](
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'Stapje voor stapje de controle terugpakken': hoe media hun publiek kunnen heroveren op Big Tech
Techgiganten bedreigen de democratie en de informatievoorziening, schreven bijna alle Nederlandse media vorige week in een brandbrief aan informate...
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'Stapje voor stapje de controle terugpakken': hoe media hun publiek kunnen heroveren op Big Tech
Techgiganten bedreigen de democratie en de informatievoorziening, schreven bijna alle Nederlandse media vorige week in een brandbrief aan informate...
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New: ATmosphere Report #145, with collections of links to interesting atproto articles for November This time, the links are on-protocol, as a [@cosmik.network@bsky.brid.gy](
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Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks https://cosmik.network/ | Building @semble.so a social knowledge network for researchers | C...
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🍃 delightful docs & social publishing 📝 try: leaflet.pub/home explore: leaflet.pub/discover lab notes: lab.leaflet.pub/ code: tangled.org/l...
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coming to think of it more: Twitter having a 21% of 'ever used it' vs 8% for Threads is consistent both platforms currently having the same DAU, if you account for platform age difference (18 vs 2.5) and a ~6% annual churn rate [techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/t...](
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Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth.
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fascinating that Threads claims over 400M monthly active users while only ~21M of US adults claim to have *ever* used Threads So where are the oth...
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this week's fediverse news is about how Newsmast is building apps for local news publishers that combines their articles with social media feeds, combining news with the fediverse into a single app [connectedplaces.online/fediverse-re...](
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Fediverse Report – #144
Newsmast launches news app that combines local news with fediverse integration, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR
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Fediverse Report – #144
Newsmast launches news app that combines local news with fediverse integration, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR
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fascinating that Threads claims over 400M monthly active users while only ~21M of US adults claim to have *ever* used Threads So where are the other 380M users located? Taiwan apparently has an active Threads community, but where else? RE:
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this weeks ATmosphere/bluesky news, with how Eurosky helped show that the atproto ecosystem is bigger than just Bluesky, Bluesky doing dev grants, and how Gander is thinking about creating cultural sovereignty with their platform [ATmosphere Report - #144](https://leaflet.connectedplaces.online/3m6kaze4y3s2i )
Mastodon has a new CEO, with Eugen Rochko stepping down and the former CFO Felix Hlatky taking over the leadership role. this week's fediverse report is a reflection on that and a closer look at the changes [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...](
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Fediverse Report – #143
Mastodon has a new CEO as Eugen Rochko steps down.
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Fediverse Report – #143
Mastodon has a new CEO as Eugen Rochko steps down.
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Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power [ATmosphere Report 143 - Eurosk...](
ATmosphere Report 143 - Eurosky Live - Connected Places
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this capsule hotel im staying at just full sent it with their space theme https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreiemikisycnd34tl7myc2ia66hyxiojvadaevltrgrgcruxnt5pjtu https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreibbmj2ehoofaix6zdyhwiuu5rpkcqgrzopzvghvxqu7hnaqnmzaqe
Community-based social networking servers requires communities to set up new servers. but what if the act of 'communities-starting-servers' is tied to specific periods of time? [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...](
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Fediverse Report – #142
Some updates on Bonfire, and some questions on whether communities are still starting new servers. Mastodon shares some of the upcoming features th...
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Fediverse Report – #142
Some updates on Bonfire, and some questions on whether communities are still starting new servers. Mastodon shares some of the upcoming features th...
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