The best Fediverse newsletters

A New Social, the non-profit behind Bridgy Fed and Bounce, writes about bridging social protocols such as ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr and Farcaster, and about its migration features and infrastructure cost cutting. Readers get technical and governance reasoning on why new protocols are held back, plus candid engineering write-ups of how serving costs were reduced.

Essays by an Italian filmmaker and photographer on the open social web, covering investigative reporting on W Social's privacy and technical failures and step-by-step self-hosting guides for the fediverse. Readers get critical analysis of decentralised platforms and practical tutorials for running their own social media server.

A personal blog covering the Fediverse, digital privacy and self-hosting, with opinionated essays on topics like Meta's Threads integration, the Digital Euro and local AI agents. Readers get a pro-federation, privacy-focused perspective with some supporting data and sources.

Disintermedia is a personal newsletter by Danyl Strype (Strypey) from Aotearoa New Zealand, mixing political commentary on the supermarket duopoly and proposals for public, community-controlled food supply with reflections on Māori seasonal new year, music culture and the fediverse. Readers get opinionated, idiosyncratic essays from a longtime activist and community developer with a clear voice.

A personal blog-style newsletter covering hands-on indie game development with Godot on Linux, alongside commentary on Fediverse advocacy and open source tooling. Readers get first-person experiments, tool reviews and practical observations from a long-time Linux and Fediverse advocate.

Paths & Patches is a newsletter from the Newsmast team on building community-driven social web spaces, covering governance, the Fediverse and Bluesky ecosystems, and app pilots for newsrooms and creators. Readers get updates on the Newsmast Foundation's projects and reflections on how decentralised networks can grow.

A personal blog-style newsletter mixing technical posts on self-hosting ActivityPub with Ghost, essays on enshittification and AI economics, and agile tooling ideas like priority chess. Readers get opinionated, informal takes on software, business and process problems.

A personal blog by a photographer who has left mainstream social media for the Fediverse and digital independence, mixing reflections on Instagram fatigue with nature photography notes and a report from FOSDEM. Readers get an honest, personal take on creative work outside big platforms.

A community blog for the Canadian Mastodon instance mstdn.ca, posting updates on governance, moderation, infrastructure moves like self-hosting hardware, and member meetings. It reads as community-internal announcements and operational updates rather than broad commentary.

A weekly curation and opinionated commentary for developers and users interested in open web, open social and the fediverse, framed around Techno Anarchism. It recommends a self-hosting and RSS-based approach and introduces the LESS stack of tools for escaping big tech.

Short service announcements from The Gamers' Tavern, a gaming community that runs its own Mastodon and Pixelfed servers. Readers get notices about maintenance, software updates and sign-up status.