Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct 2024 week 4
A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build int…
Coordinated Community Response Mitigates Fediverse Spam Attack
On October 8, 2024, an IFTAS Connect member observed one of the first spam posts from a network attack conducted by what appeared to be a reuse of the…
2024 Survey – Early Highlights
We are now reviewing the fantastic responses from our 2024 Needs Assessment participants. Thank you to everyone who participated! A very special thank…
Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct 24 week 3
Chatting comes to the ATmosphere with Picosky, X is unbanned in Brazil, and a significant group of Brazilians moved back, and a deeper dive into aviar…
How Decentralization Benefits Publishers, with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller
It’s tough being a media outlet these days. Audiences are fractured, referrals from search engines are dropping, and publishers are at the mercy of algorithms…
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 88
self-hosted 3d printing app Manyfold joins the fediverse, and sub.club expands to longform blogging with write.as
We Distribute Is On Temporary Hiatus
Our regular schedule has been interrupted, due to difficulties sustaining our regular programming. It's not over, but we need help, and we're sorry.
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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 87
Mastodon has officially launched a new version, a new Reddit-like with ClubsAll has launched, and IFTAS has started rolling out their content classifi…
Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct 24 week 2
Updates on labelers, a linktree-like app on atproto with linkat.blue, and more.
IFTAS Update: Content Classification, Moderation Tooling
We are extremely proud to announce our Content Classification Service is up and running, with our first classifier active. We are starting with detect…