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Mastodon plans to launch quote posts starting next week with safety features allowing users to control how they get quoted, to avoid "dunking" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/mastodon-rolls-out-quote-p…

Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent 'dunking' | TechCrunch
Decentralized X alternative Mastodon adds support for quote posts, but with additional controls.

little sticky reminder:

3-5. October - @… at @…

Infos: https://berlinf…

It's not hyperbole to say that what we in the Fediverse are doing to build decentralized social media is important for the future of liberal democracy.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/

"it's decentralized!" "The directory server runs on Bluesky. We're working on making something that doesn't just run on Bluesky."
#MastoAdmin #GophersUnite

I see, for a decentralized social network we have to choose between OpenWaffles and LibreWaffles

Mgmt: We don't have the resources to make our own LLM. Can we just monetize AI prompts?
Business School Student: Hold my beer 🍺
#blockchain

PromptChain: A Decentralized Web3 Architecture for Managing AI Prompts as Digital Assets
We present PromptChain, a decentralized Web3 architecture that establishes AI prompts as first-class digital assets with verifiable ownership, version control, and monetization capabilities. Current centralized platforms lack mechanisms for proper attribution, quality assurance, or fair compensation for prompt creators. PromptChain addresses these limitations through a novel integration of IPFS for immutable storage, smart contracts for governance, and token incentives for community curation. O…

Mastodon says it does not "have the means to apply age verification" to its services and it's up to server admins to observe local laws in places they operate (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mast

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

Instead of relying entirely on donations and grants as before,
Mastodon announced on Friday that it will now offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations that want to join the open social web.
That network, also called the fediverse, offers a way for individuals and organizations to set up their own servers that interconnect with others that run the same protocol, ActivityPub.
ActivityPub powers a number of different software applications, includin…

Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

Why can't we have this?
A social platform where your data lives on torrents. Signed with your own keys. Direct and group messaging can run on the same network. No central servers. No outages. No kill switch.
Scales naturally. Users control everything. Nobody can take it down. Nobody can lock you out.
Feels obvious. Still doesn’t exist. Why?
This could replace Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, X (maybe even Mastodon, though ActivityPub is a different beast). It would be…

Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml
Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23699 https://…

Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml
This study investigates the presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad.ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou. We conduct a temporal analysis on Lemmygrad.ml's user activity, with also measuring the degree of highly abusive or hateful content. Furthermore, we explore the content of their posts using a transformer-based topic modeling approach. Our findings reveal a subst…

Who Leads in the Shadows? ERGM and Centrality Analysis of Congressional Democrats on Bluesky
Gordon Hew, Ian McCulloh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16858 https://

Who Leads in the Shadows? ERGM and Centrality Analysis of Congressional Democrats on Bluesky
Following the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Democratic lawmakers and their supporters increasingly migrated from mainstream social media plat-forms like X (formerly Twitter) to decentralized alternatives such as Bluesky. This study investigates how Congressional Democrats use Bluesky to form networks of influence and disseminate political messaging in a platform environment that lacks algorithmic amplification. We employ a mixed-methods approach that combines social network analysis, expo-ne…