this week's fediverse reports has some more thoughts on Threads' user statistics, and about Holos, an upcoming project that allows you to run an ActivityPub server on your phone connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

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...

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 collection, with a page that lets you follow the conversations on leaflet.pub@bsky.brid.gy and bsky.app@bsky.brid.gy traverse.connectedplaces.online https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreiebpwusm2fwtbby475w45dovajqsgrj6zvxugdxmo6r5htpnao62q

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... https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreibz3e42txklqh57zga3k646o6yf7ffivfk3rddjmlidw2zfqe2vcq

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...

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? https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreic3foryb6zrpxcodc7zbs7kfmqutc6l6nbqmxci5db6kuo3kjrdse