Federated Mind offers practical guides to building on the open web, covering the Fediverse, the AT Protocol ecosystem, and creator-owned publishing. Recent issues compare account portability across networks and survey the non-Mastodon Fediverse platforms, alongside a reported news story on a queer bar's deplatforming.
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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 by a self-hoster documenting practical home automation and server setups, including Home Assistant stale-sensor alerts, enabling ActivityPub in Ghost, and configuring a TURN server with TLS for Matrix Synapse. Each post gives concrete configs and troubleshooting steps drawn from the author's own experience.
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.
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