Fediverse

Fediverse is a common name for interconnected social networks, blogs, and other websites that cooperate instead of competing.

I host my own fediverse server with Mastodon (I wrote about my first full year), and I made several projects and wrote multiple articles and explorations, including:

Some of my work has been featured in Mastodon’s official development Trunk & Tidbits blog series (April 2024, June 2024).

 

A tinted screenshot of the Trunk and Tidbits Mastodon blog as it appeared in August 2024. Below the Mastodon logo (the word “mastodon” written in a friendly-looking, lowercase font, with a simplified illustration of an elephant-like mastodon partially covered by the letter “m”) is the tagline “Updates from the Mastodon team”. Further below is a grid of the four posts that have been published so far, with a thumbnail, title, and a brief description for each of the articles.
Trunk & Tidbits Mastodon blog article

Getting recognition from Mastodon's team.

📅 14 days ago

Three proposed fediverse logos: – an older version of the current fediverse logo, five filled-in circles aranged in a pentagon shape, with each circle connected to each other, forming a pentagram-like shape, surrounded by a circle and two wreaths on the side – the “Federation era” logo that replaces the pentagram from the first logo with random squiggles to represent “the chaotic nature of the fediverse”; the design of the wreaths is simplified – a “classic” fediverse logo, a variation on the first design with the “pentagram” slightly tilted to one side and with the circle and wreaths removed.
The history of the fediverse logo article

"A lot of people think that the pentacle was chosen because of its occult or satanic connotations."

📅 a month ago

A tinted screenshot of a portion of a Mastodon profile page showing a list of four links, three of which are verified.
Verification in the fediverse article

Analysis of the link verification feature in the fediverse.

📅 a month ago

A scatter chart showing several popular fediverse servers laid out on a grid, with x axis representing number of registered users, and y axis representing the number of custom emoji on each server. The data point for mstdn.social is highlighted showing the corresponding data and a prompt to click the data point to browse the emoji.
Custom fediverse emoji article

A look at custom emoji used across the fediverse.

📅 2 months ago

A screenshot of the app used to reorder pinned posts. Each post has the text redacted with rectangles.
Pinned posts organizer project

Easily organize your pinned Mastodon posts.

📅 2 months ago

A color-tinted screenshot of a command prompt with the output of the script: python script.py mastodon.social true false true downloading domain blocks from mastodon.social… processing… saving to mastodon.social-domain-blocks.csv… done!
Mastodon domain block exporter script project

A simple script for exporting a trusted Mastodon server's domain block list.

📅 2 months ago

A tinted screenshot of the fediverseexplorations.org website, showing the page title, description, and a list of studies.
Fediverse Explorations project

Exploring the fediverse through data, studies, and polls.

📅 2 months ago

A pair of two charts: a bar chart showing number of boosts per account for the top 100 most boosted accounts, and a bar pie chart showing the breakdown of original and boosted posts, heavily skewed towards boost.
Lisa Melton: The fediverse's own algorithm article

What it takes to power fediverse's curation system.

📅 2 months ago

A graph chart with nodes representing different fediverse servers. The servers that are the focus of this study are shown in size based on the total number of users on instances blocking each server.
Fediverse domain blocks article

Exploring fediverse domain blocks, an important tool that keeps the fediverse safe.

📅 3 months ago

A sketchy drawing of a person carrying a large flower pot with a leafy plant inside it.
How to be a good fediverse citizen article

A short guide for folks interested in making apps, tools, and other projects with and for the fediverse.

📅 3 months ago

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