Another day, another non-profit. Mastodon is aiming for an organizational shake-up in 2025, with greater emphasis on stewardship and shifting away from a SABDFL development model. https://wedistribute.org/2025/01/mastodon-eu-non-profit/

Today, we get into the nitty-gritty details of Surf, a new project by Flipboard ! It's a feed reader with #Fediverse social features, where you can build your own community newsfeeds. https://wedistribute.org/2024/12/surf-social-browser/

Loops aims to be an open #Fediverse alternative to TikTok, Snapchat, and Vine. We take an early look at the app, and talk about what it's like! https://wedistribute.org/2024/11/loops-early-look/

Due to the ongoing strain of trying to write, edit, and publish articles on a consistent basis, and a handful of personal obligations of our founders, We Distribute is officially on temporary hiatus. This is not the end of our publication or our project, but we need to step back for a while and regroup, if the project hopes to survive. https://wedistribute.org/2024/10/on-hiatus/

Earlier this month, the Mastodon project announced a new initiative funded by NGI Search: #Fediverse Discovery Providers! The goal is to build a resource framework for different kinds of services that can work with potentially any instance or platform. https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/fediverse-discovery-providers/

Evan Prodromou has officially announced The Social Web Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of #ActivityPub, the #Fediverse, and The Social Web. https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/social-web-foundation-launch/

We have to give a huge shout-out and thank you to Scott Kellum and his company, Typetura, for their amazing work with our redesign. We're excited to see what comes next!

A Fresh New Look for We Distribute | Typetura

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We have a guest article today, co-written by Heidi Li Feldman and Tim Chambers! They make the case for political organizing in the #Fediverse, as opposed to corporate social media. https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/the-revolution-will-be-federated/

Mozilla has decided to shut down their #Mastodon instance, after laying off the majority of the project's team earlier this year. The company is instead focusing on AI for the foreseeable future. #Fediverse https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/mozilla-social-shutting-down/

#FediForum starts today! Come hang out on this page for our live commentary and news updates: https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/fediforum-september-2024/

For #Fediverse musicians looking for a new #Bandcamp alternative, Bandwagon feels extremely promising. https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/bandwagon-music/

In the development and building of a shared, open, collaborative network, efforts have come and gone over the years for the #Fediverse. We dig into the history, various attempts, and some of the ideas people have had. https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/history-fediverse-symbol/

As the #Fediverse continues to grow, people are looking to build new experiences that change what's possible on the network today. #Flohmarkt is a nascent project intended for selling personal items, and may be the first attempt of its kind here. https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market/

We want to start actively promoting #Nostr events on our site. These include game jams, hackathons, art collabs, unconferences, live listens, and webinars. We're currently looking at using an events calendar on our site, with the goal of integrating it with the greater Social Web. This includes ActivityPub, Bluesky, and Nostr. If you're an event organizer, and would like to have something included on our calendar, give us a shout!

Within the last few years, publishing within the #Fediverse has started to take off. This week's opinion piece focuses on some of the current hurdles this network has, when it comes to user experience, and proposes ideas and a vision of what's possible. https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/fediverse-publishing/

We have a small gift for you today: over the past 8 months, we've been building an icon library for various decentralized social platforms and protocols within the space. It's an ongoing effort, and we're happy to release our initial version today. It's like Font Awesome, but for the Social Web! https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/decentralized-social-icons/

This is simply a reminder: We Distribute is a nonprofit organization that currently runs on donations. Our lead writer has been writing and running this site for free for years. He's now a full-time student. If you could help support us during this time, it would mean a lot. ♥️

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The author of "Protocols, Not Platforms", Techdirt's Mike Masnick, has joined the #Bluesky board of directors. His goal is to help the organization stay true to their original vision. https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/mike-masnick-joins-bluesky/

The #MastodonForHarris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the #Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward. https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/mastodon-for-harris/

We posted our very first Progress Report on OpenCollective today, that catches up with what we've been doing the past few months. We have some big ideas, and talk about where our publication is going.

Progress Report, July 2024 - We Distribute

Nearly one year and one month ago, We Distribute was relaunched under a "Go Big or Go Home" mentality. The project had lay dormant for a few years,...