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After Musk helped create the permission structure for this weeks riots in Belfast, the UK government announced "no change" to its policy on X. This non-response is stranger than it looks: Weber defines the state by its exclusive right to use, threaten, and authorize force, and […]
Fediverse news for May 2026
everything in fediverse needs that stood out to me from the last month, such as Lemmy gearing up for a 1.0 release, WordPress becoming a full open social web platform, and how a Russian botnet is active on the fediverse
as well as a first look at the @EUCommission […]
Catholic theology in a protocol blog, why not
Pope Leo XIV published a new encyclical this week, and it contains surprisingly sharp observations on how to build the open social web
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/
Various projects on the open social web are working towards private data, whether that's @Mastodon getting funding for adding E2EE, Lemmy's upcoming 1.0 release featuring private communities, or Bluesky's work on expanding atproto with permissioned data.
Bounded communities with private data […]
Lol. Lmao. From @fediversereport
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr162-eu-regulation-wont-save-open-social-networks/
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
@EUCommission I do appreciate the EC having an account on here, so I can at least tag them to say that the approach to vocally support open social networks, while the DMA misunderstands them, and the CJEU actively undermines them, is […]
New from me, on the decision by the @EUCommission to not extend the DMA interoperability requirements to social media, and how this closes off a pathway for mass adoption of open social networks.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr162-eu-regulation-wont-save-open-social-networks/
A writeup of two conferences about the fediverse this week, with @fediforum and the German 2MR.social conference from this week, and how they are both dealing with bridging work to both EU politics as well as atproto and the atmosphere […]
New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem
on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like #ActivityPub and #atproto
warning: do not read if you value your sanity
https://connectedplaces.online/federation-has-a-european-legal-problem/
