ReadSourcesas of 2026-09-16
- Alternative for Germany wants criminal charges over ‘ethnic cleansing’ comment
AfD filed a criminal defamation complaint against Germany's chancellor over a speech. In democracies, politicians don't get to police criticism.
- AI watermarking has a decentralisation problem
With AI watermarking inference providers mark their output as AI generated. But for the system to become useful, lots of independent providers need to collaborate together in a decentralised system without overarching governance.
- Congress has a chance to help Americans defend their rights. It should take it.
FIRE endorses the Restoring Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act, which would let Americans recover legal costs after successfully defending their rights.
- VICTORY: Federal court says ICE threatened critic by serving him with 'Warning Notice' over an email
Rochester native David Streever filed the lawsuit after ICE retaliated against him for a critical email he sent during January's crackdown in Minnesota.
- US hauls in UK government officials over under-16s social media ban and censorious media plans
US Embassy officials reprimanded UK Government representatives over the under-16s social media ban, the Online Safety Act, and DCMS's censorious media Green Paper — the latest strain on the special relationship.
- Nostr Compass #40
Welcome back to Nostr Compass , your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: Marmot Protocol and MDK add bounded conversation windows, recovery fixes, and coordinated SDK bindings , Myco turns its FIPS mesh into an offline napplet and file-sharing runtime, Dart NDK changes relay and c…
- Trunk & Tidbits, August 2026
Welcome to the 29th edition of Trunks & Tidbits! Releases In August, we released Mastodon 4.7, which focuses entirely on technical improvements that are not visible by users. If you are a Fediverse implementer, our release blog post will likely be useful to you to understand the…
- Government poised to back Bill outlawing SLAPPs used to silence whistleblowers and journalists
The Government is expected to back Sir John Whittingdale's Private Member's Bill to outlaw SLAPPs, the abusive lawsuits used by powerful individuals and corporations to silence journalists and whistleblowers.
- Censorious Westminster mandarins are stripping Britons of honours for speaking freely
A Freedom of Information request by FSU member Nick Buckley MBE has exposed how Whitehall's secretive Forfeiture Committee can strip Britons of their honours over lawful social media comments.
- “Boom Protocol” Spam
This page will collate posts that share advice and guidance on the spam registration activity connected to “BoomProtocolProbe” and the bulk creation of #bpSpam accounts. Notes: Over the course of days, the attack has changed approach several times. Each mitigation is quickly ove…
- This Week in Matrix 2026-09-11
🔗 Matrix Live - Matrix Conference 2026 Preview Today's Matrix Live: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iE7ncBlI4_c 🔗 Dept of Editorial 🖋️ andypiper writes Hello! This Week in Matrix aka TWIM is our weekly update on what is going on in the Matrix ecosystem (the clue is in the title…!…
- Nostr Compass #39
Welcome back to Nostr Compass , your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: ngit and GitWorkshop move signed git workflows onto Nostr and Blossom , nsite-clay makes browser publishing recoverable, and Wingman App joins browsing, local signing, authentication, and files. Shosho and Li…
- Updates to IFTAS Denylists and Access Options
At IFTAS, our mission is to equip Social Web moderators and administrators with the tools and data they need to keep their communities safe. To make managing moderation feeds easier, more flexible, and more accessible across various platforms, we have rolled out several updates …
- Static ActivityPub Publishing
One of the requests I (Evan) have heard often over the years about ActivityPub is to make publishing on the Fediverse as easy as publishing with RSS. To make an RSS feed for a person or a site, a publisher provides, dynamically or even statically, a single file, with a simple fo…
- This Week in Matrix 2026-09-04
🔗 Matrix Live S13E07 FITKO Neo / Community Workation Today's Matrix Live: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vi-kCO3ZwiM 🔗 Dept of The Matrix Conference 🏛️ 🔗 The Matrix Conference ( website ) andypiper announces The countdown to The Matrix Conference 2026 is on! We're excited to co…
- Nostr Compass #38
Welcome back to Nostr Compass , your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: Voca 1.0 brings verified Nostr notes and long-form subscriptions to an offline Android reader that speaks articles aloud, nostream expands relay-side job routing and authenticated operation, NDK for Dart fixe…
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival
Believe it or not, the Fediverse has a thriving independent art community. This week, a bunch of them are coming together to perform online. The post The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival appeared first on We Distribute .
- Mastodon 4.7
This release of Mastodon focuses entirely on technical improvements that are not necessarily visible on the user side, ahead of the ambitiously user-focused Mastodon 5.0 release later this year. Our goal is to improve compatibility with other fediverse platforms, improve perform…
- The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
- 5.0: Laying the foundation
Two weeks ago, we shared insights from Mastodon’s first Discovery Week and how it’s informing our roadmap. Today, we’re offering a deeper dive on what’s in store for Mastodon 5.0 – not an exhaustive list of changes, but a glimpse into major decisions and the thoughts behind them…
- New York Fediverse Meetup Friday 14 Aug 2026 7PM
Mallory and I (Evan) will both be at HOPE in New York tomorrow. Mallory is giving a talk on I-Stars: Protocols and Power on the main stage which looks awesome. I’ll be holding a workshop to help people Get on the Fediverse Already – setting up their Fediverse accounts for the fi…
- Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
- Bluesky names Toni Schneider CEO
Toni Schneider is now Bluesky's permanent CEO, making permanent the role he has held on an interim basis since March.
- The Algorithm, Singular
A new European ruling on algorithmic amplification determines if an operator controls how content spreads on a platform. But applying it to open social networks turns out to be a problem.
- Blog: A Minute from the Moderators
Welcome back to Moderator Minutes. This is the third post in our series on Community Care in Online Spaces. A note before we begin, and as with the rest of this series: these posts run a little denser than our usual Moderator Minutes, and we don’t expect anyone to absorb a…
- Summer of Standard.site
We've partnered with three blogging platforms built on AT Protocol — Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog — to give you 25% off any annual plan this summer.
- The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card
Six months after an initial analysis, two Fediverse experts come back to examine where user experience has changed. Are we on the path of redemption, or repeating the same old sins? The post The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card appeared first on We Distri…
- Blog: A Minute from the Moderators
Welcome back to Moderator Minutes. This is Part 2 of our series on Community Care in Online Spaces. In Part 1 , we explored how norms shift, how those shifts create friction, and how the ways we respond to that friction can either build or erode community. We asked you to sit wi…