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#OpenSocial #Awards
"These awards showcase leading projects by those seeking to develop alternatives to Big Tech products and platforms, leveraging any of the open social protocols.

Applications are due by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Friday May 1, 2026. They will be awarded during the PublicSpaces […]

Flipboard Dot Social Hosted by Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue, Dot Social is a new podcast and video series spotlighting leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement. Mike and his guests will explore the evolution of the internet and how new open standards, like ActivityPub, can forever change the Web and the world of social media.

Find the Dot Social playlist here and discover past episodes with @molly0xfff, @tchambers, @jasonkoebler, @kissane and more.

https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos

#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Fediverse

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When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, Tori White saw an opportunity.
On the latest Dot Social, @mike sits down with Skylight Social's CEO to talk about building a creator-first video platform on the AT Protocol. Watch the episode here, or find it wherever you get your podcasts […]

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Certainly interesting.

"The Open Social Awards celebrate technology that makes the social internet work for everyone. We believe the future of open social will be strongest when it’s shaped by people from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences."

They're looking for […]

Gute und wichtige Werbung für #opensocial. 🤭

Fediverse Relay - Welcome Connect to the fediverse through a relay server designed specifically for mobile devices. Join a decentralized network where you control your data, your privacy, and your social experience.

Looks like there is a new kid on the #opensocial block: holos.social
You can find them on #Mastodon & # Nostr: @HolosSocial
From what I understand it's #ActivityPub with features of Nostr: profiles are only distributed by relays, not hosted on the servers themselves.

A mastodon post from Elena Rossini that says - Can you imagine Mastodon raising 100 MILLION dollars from a crypto VC fund and failing to disclose it... for a full year? No I can't either. And from their actual press release: The Atmosphere currently contains about 20 billion public records—the posts, likes, comments and other interactions that bring the ecosystem to life. It's an astonishing collection of what open social infrastructure makes possible. How I read it: data harvesting at its finest 💁‍♀️

#Crapitalism strikes again. Who would have thought that a Crapitalist would want to monetize the open web 🫢 It stops being outlandish when you discover that Bain Capital’s #Crypto division is the principle investor. I dumped #Bluesky months ago. Now you. #opensocial

Dot Social by Mike McCue on Surf Surf - Community feed for Dot Social, the podcast dedicated to the future of digital freedom and the open social web. Contribute by posting with #DotSocial

If you're a @surf user, check out the custom feed to follow conversations from each episode and posts from guests.

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#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #Federation #Fediverse

Flipboard Dot Social Hosted by Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue, Dot Social is a new podcast and video series spotlighting leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement. Mike and his guests will explore the evolution of the internet and how new open standards, like ActivityPub, can forever change the Web and the world of social media.

Catch up on seasons 1 and 2 of DotSocial here:

https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos

#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #Federation #Fediverse

Dot Social Is Back Today we’re launching the third season of Dot Social. Over the course of eight interviews, Flipboard founder and CEO Mike McCue invites guests to share the open social projects they’re working on, obstacles and opportunities they’ve encountered and how they hope to expand the ecosystem.

More episodes are on their way! Read about what's coming up:

about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-soc...

#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #Federation #Fediverse

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We’re kicking off season 3 of Dot Social with a conversation between our CEO, @mike, and @rileytestut and @shanegillio of @altstore. Watch the episode here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts:

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#DotSocial #Podcast […]

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"Welcome #socialcoder. Ahead of you lies an adventure. To explore with others innovative new ways to collaborate and create value together. We focus on the delivery of Sustainable open social systems—elevating #FOSS projects to become #Sustainable #opensocial systems, i.e. #SOSS initiatives—that […]

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Congrats to our friends at AltStore on joining the social web! 🎉

@rileytestut and @shanegillio’s alternative iOS app store is integrating with the fediverse, letting apps shared through AltStore travel across platforms like Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky and become more discoverable across the […]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/116211352248122697

Amazing news from our friends at
@altstore! Keep an eye out for @rileytestut and @shanegillio's chat with @mike on the Dot Social podcast, coming soon!

#AltStore #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocial #DotSocial

You know, @periwinkle.social is the StatusNet of the #ATmosphere network.

StatusNet (2008) was the first managed hosting (free & paid) for the #Fediverse network (then called Identiverse).

#OpenSocial #SocialWeb

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Jay Graber is stepping down as open social platform Bluesky's CEO and becoming its chief innovation officer, @WIRED reports. The board of directors will appoint her successor.

https://flip.it/tNfKzI

#Bluesky #OpenSocial #ATmosphere

I’m here, defying the algorithm —
for creative, decentralized platforms:
beautifully unprofitable and unapologetic,
where speech remains unfiltered
and creativity resists commodification.

#decentralized #opensocial

Dot Com Press Publishing for the internet age.

#Business #Introductions
Your domain is your “internet handle” · What if your handle worked on any platform? ilo.im/16aoxr by Pete Millspaugh

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#Business #User #Handle #Internet #Domain #DNS #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

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Hi @staff, I saw your post about the future of Mastodon) and I first want to applaud y'all on making many forward-looking changes that will help grow #Mastodon ecosystem and the #Fediverse in positive ways.

I also saw that you're interested in new outside-the-box ideas for how Mastodon.Online […]

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"#Opensocial #protocols offer alternative visions that, in a range of ways, can contribute to a renewal and long-term instantiation of user agency. Their #openness, meaning the ability of people to use and extend protocols in accordance with open software licences, creates the possibility of […]

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Mastodon has announced plans to make its app more approachable for newcomers, and developed new features for creators. Here's @Sarahp's story for @Techcrunch. Find the full blogpost by @renchap and @imanijoy at the second link.

https://flip.it/TKKQZS
https://flip.it/RQRRnp

#ActivityPub […]

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Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom? @ben says the value is in protocols that allow people — all people around the world — to build and own communities that address their needs. "The only way to achieve that is to not just co-design with them but distribute equity. They must […]

Here's one for the @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev community. Should I be using 'app passwords' from my settings when I sign up to other Apps on the protocol? What are the pros and cons of using my BlueSky password? @safety.bsky.app #ATProto #socialmedia #opensocial

If there's one thing that unites the #Fediverse and The #ATmosphere it is this: Substack is ⛔👎🏽🙅🏽🚫😒😤

Use Hugo (with ATProto & ActivityPub plugins), WriteAs, Offprint, GreenGale, Pckt, Leaflet, Ghost, WordPress (with AP plugin).

#OpenSocial #SocialWeb

If there's one thing that unites the #Fediverse and The #ATmosphere it is this: Substack is ⛔👎🏽🙅🏽🚫😒😤

Use Hugo (with ATProto & ActivityPub plugins), WriteAs, Offprint, GreenGale, Pckt, Leaflet, Ghost, WordPress (with AP plugin).

#OpenSocial #SocialWeb

New pinned post:
#icelist

F the Fascists and anyone who assists them, but especially corporate social media platforms….

#ICE #fascist #EndFascism #antifa #opensocial #socialweb
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main_Page

Skylight has a ton of new updates! And we’re actively shipping bug fixes!

Thanks to all the folks via comments and email helping us find the bugs 🐞

Shout out to @reedharmeyer.bsky.social for working so hard on @skylight.social ✨

#update #news #skylightsocial #opensocial

Got Ideas For Growing The Open Social Web? Bring Them. Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been …

#events #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #OpenSocial

'Johannes Ernst from FediForum and I are doing something about it. On March 2nd, we’re hosting an online “un-workshop” focused on one question: how do we actually grow the open social web even more?'

www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/g...

A screenshot of the at-me service by zzstoatzz showing an account's relationship with various services leaving footprints in a user's ATproto repository or history. In the image, the sample is my account @youronly.one with my current avatar at the center and it is surrounded by all the ATmosphere services I've ever used—each displayed as an icon sourced from their respective favicon image. My account currently has 70+ in total.

I promise, I'm not an ATproto dev. I just like testing stuff. I've been doing this since 2008 when the first open Social Web network, the Fediverse, launched. Today, I'm more active in the ATmosphere network of the open Social Web. 😁

at-me.wisp.place/view/?handle...

#OpenSocial #SocialWeb

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"We’re excited to share that we've fulfilled the #FreeOurFeeds commitment to launch a #publicinterest tech foundation. The #ModalFoundation is a new nonprofit dedicated to making #opensocial tech viable at scale. Modal works to support decentralized tech that helps people create, circulate and […]