This week's news for #Bluesky and the ATmosphere - A lack of action from mods about well-known anti-trans writer joining Bluesky leads to community uproar - More information about Bluesky's upcoming subscription service - Multiple new #atproto apps have launched

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Bluesky's decision not to moderate a specific account leads to controversy in the community, more info on Bluesky's plans for monetisatio...

New: What is Farcaster, and why did a16z value it at 1 billion dollar? #Farcaster is a decentralised social network that has seen significant growth recently, with currently around 80k daily active users. The network has strong ties with crypto and Ethereum. They got an investment of $150M recently by (among others) a16z. I take a closer look at how Farcaster works, and why some crypto VCs think its worth a billion dollars. Read at:

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What is Farcaster, and why did it raise 150M USD?

Farcaster, a crypto-based decentralised social networking protocol hit the news this week, by raising an eye watering 150 million USD, with a valua...

Correction: the original version stated that the Mostr.pub bridge was used for a spam wave on Bluesky. This is incorrect, a different bridge between Nostr and the fediverse, momostr.pink, was used. Mostr.pub creator Alex Gleason explains that the Mostr.pub bridge has anti-spam filtering that would have prevented such as spam attack.

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New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 69 It's this weeks news, with: Celebrating the 16th birthday of the fediverse European Commission sets up their o...

Meet NLnet, the foundation supporting many fediverse projects The NLnet foundation supports projects 'with ideas to fix the internet'. You might recognise some of the names: Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed and Pleroma all have had funding from NLnet. I visited their office in Amsterdam to help you get to know foundation, what they do, and how they support the open internet, including the fediverse. Read at:

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Meet NLnet, the foundation supporting many fediverse projects

The NLnet foundation has played a significant role in the fediverse, with their financial support for most major projects. In this piece I meet som...

The lemmy.world (lwadmin@lemmy.world) admins release a statement about the recent reoccurring outages at lemmy.world. They state that for multiple hours per day, they are under a DDOS attack. The attackers find database queries that are 'expensive' to run, to try and overload the database. The lemmy.world admins also respond to remarks that lemmy.world is too big, and should close down registration. lemmy.world/post/2923697