FediForum begins later today! We're so excited to see all the cool things happening in the Fediverse and the wider Social Web. If you're going to be showing off what you're working on, we wish you the best of luck. If not, we hope you have fun 🕺 #FediForum #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon

It's the first Friday of spooky season 🧙‍♀️ We'll be back on Monday after we've dusted off our spell books.

Your profile on the Open Social Web looks the same as your profile on Big Tech social platforms, but there's a big difference. Your profile is no longer a profile on a platform, but an address across a web. You can use it to signal far and wide, across multiple platforms and protocols. That's why we recommend filling out your profile here carefully, with this in mind. #SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #OSW #Mastodon #Profile #MastoTips

Today we're wishing our friends a meaningful Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement is a Jewish holy day, in which practising Jews ask for forgiveness. It may be intended for children, but this explanation of Yom Kippur by BBC Bitesize is the best we can find! 👇

BBC Bitesize

What is Yom Kippur? | Ages 7-11 | Bitesize Religious Festivals - BBC Bitesize

When is Yom Kippur? Learn all about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur with fun interactive videos, activities, downloads, and quizzes for KS2 schoo...

#YomKippur

"Where the social connection for a Facebook Group is the Meta walled garden, our community apps connect through to the open social web, on the Fediverse, and, across the bridge, Bluesky." @Michael Foster on the Newsmast Foundation and everything we're up to at the moment.

Paths & Patches

Building apps for social spaces

The Newsmast team was in Rome last week, working through our messaging and branding with a non-profit agency. It was hot, hard work, ending up with...

#Blog #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #Pathway #App #Tech

Some new users give up on the Open Social Web after only a few days of trying. So, how do we help people who manage to make an account stay engaged in the Open Social Web? Show them people and posts they like, on topics they love. That's why we built 62 topical Newsmast Channels and then opened our Channel building technology to the public. So you can build what you care about too. Try building your own on Channel.org today 🙌 #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

We're sad to see that IFTAS Connect has begun the process of shutting down. We, like many other server admins, often found advice and help from the community there. We hope that by preserving the 'Connect' news feed with Channel.org tech we can give back to the community. Thank you for the work by @IFTAS and everyone involved, including all the admins who shared their thoughts there. We look forward to seeing what's next for community collaboration on the Fediverse.

Sunsetting IFTAS Connect – IFTAS

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