A neanche 24 ore dalla tragica scomparsa di Evan Delogu ci chiediamo come la televisione e, in modo particolare, Ballando con le Stelle tratteranno il dolore della conduttrice
Europas Chance: Entschlossen gegen Marktmacht der Techkonzerne - Rebalance Now 30.10.2025
US-Techkonzerne wie Google oder Meta setzen derzeit alles daran, die Durchsetzung europäischer Regeln wie der wettbewerblichen Missbrauchskontrolle, des Digital Markets Act (DMA) und des Digital Services Act (DSA) zu untergraben. Mit Unterstützung der US-Regierung. Die Europäische Kommission darf sich davon nicht einschüchtern lassen. Im Gegenteil: Sie muss ein klares Signal an das Silicon Valley senden – und ihre Möglichkeiten nutzen, um den Techkonzernen endlich Grenzen zu setzen. Das laufende Google-Adtech-Verfahren könnte dabei wichtige Weichen stellen.
US-Techkonzerne setzen alles daran, die Durchsetzung europäischer Gesetze zu untergraben. Die EU darf sich davon nicht einschüchtern lassen. Im Gegenteil. Die Europäische Kommission muss jetzt entschlossen handeln und Weichen stellen.
The Art From the Lens Gallery is a celebration of visual storytellers from 1840s onwards through a collection of original vintage photographs from across the world and local to the North East of England. Rare photos, limited prints, plus a magic lantern display each evening.
Open 10:00-19:00 hrs daily at BottleWorks @BottleWorksUK on Riverside Walk, Lower Ouseburn Valley, NE6 1LX. Free exhibition.
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After another deadly clash in Rafah, Israel's response – and the fate of the fragile cease-fire – once again hinged on a late-night statement from the U.S. president
In un paese che ha un'economia sommersa talmente vasta da rendere quella regolare una eccezione (che paga per tutti), Javier Milei vuole ristrutturare le norme fiscali e di lavoro, intervenendo su contrattazione collettiva e costi dei licenziamenti ft.com/content/44abf8e6-5c7b-4…
Se un tempo i loghi erano vistosi, adesso sono rebus da risolvere. E se prima i direttori creativi erano eccentrici, ora vestono semplice. Così la moda diventa più minimal
Bedankt voor jullie stem! 🥰 #verkiezingen2025 #TK2025 Ruim 20% meer stemmen dan vorige Tweede Kamerverkiezingen! 💪😃 Helaas geen zetel, maar dit biedt wel perspectief voor komende gemeenteraadsverkiezingen!
"For those of us who mourn what’s been lost, it’s also important to acknowledge what is better. The old system was too limited in its worldview, dominated largely by white men of a certain background. Technology now allows us to receive news from many sources, including overseas."
The consequences of the evening enemy artillery strike on the city center were shown in Kherson; houses and an educational institution were damaged. — Ukrinform.
🔴This artwork is now sold, thank you. If you are interested in seeing or purchasing my art, I'd love you to visit my Folksy shop. folksy.com/find/shop/theweeowl…
Whelp it happened to me. #Covid #vaccine only for 65+. I am privileged to just be able to pay for it, but it's drugs or food for a lot of folks in Ohio, so basically the feds totally left us fucked.
Vital stats: Insurance: Medical Mutual of Ohio Hospital system: Trinity Health
News: Mother Jones | House Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Calls Her Indictment for Protesting a “Political Prosecution”
The alleged conspiracy includes actions such as “bang[ing] aggressively” on an ICE agent’s vehicle and “etching a message into the body of the vehicle, specifically the word ‘PIG.’”
Abughazaleh called the indictment from the Trump administration an attempt to stop anti-ICE protests. “This is a political prosecution, and a gross attempt to silence dissent,”
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@aseelfromgz, @casey, and I were able to carry out two verification calls today (out of the four scheduled) and we’d like to welcome two new members to Gaza Verified.
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
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PS. We’ve rescheduled the two calls we couldn’t hold to tomorrow and we’ve rescheduled all calls tomorrow to start at the earlier time of 1PM Gaza Time instead of 4PM as Internet access appears to be better earlier in the day, especially after the switch to Daylight Savings Time.
How many times can you swap the SOM before the slot gets worn out? Is that a concern at all with these tests or can you do this basically forever without consequences?
Barcode Industries has announced a limited time flash sale on its cinematic sound design instrument ARKE Shadowscapes, offering a 60% discount on the Kontakt 6 library featuring ominous and haunting atmospheres for creating tension and suspense.
"Only when this hollow, stupid, deadly world is destroyed, only when the 'home for all' here on earth has been realised, only then will our mission be accomplished! Well then! What we are building is: a new world!"
Thought of him because of: www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrge… Recently he has become a little bit better known again in Germany.
A programming note and context: Fediverse Report will now appear on Friday (instead of Tuesday), for some personal planning reasons as I fit this in with my other work. Fediverse Report will also shift in a slightly different direction, where for the foreseeable future I’ll give more context and thoughts on the shifts in the state of social networks and the open social web. It is becoming increasingly clear that the future of the open social web is getting intertwined with how the Trump administration is (and will) interact with the open social web. The Trump administration is putting an increased focus on Bluesky to troll. Erin Kissane wrote an excellent overview of the situation this week that I highly recommend.
Kissane highlights the risk that the Trump administration will suppress Bluesky in some way, echoing my own writing on the subject. Furthermore, the arrival of the White House social media accounts on Bluesky places Bluesky moderation in a tough position, with no good options to take. For Kissane, that leads her to conclude: “On the individual level, people seeking private social networking may be better off, for now, finding a trustworthy Mastodon server and maintaining their connections with accounts on Bluesky via network bridges.“
I agree with Kissane’s assessment, and for me this also points to how intertwined the futures of the fediverse and the ATmosphere have become. Bluesky is currently top-of-mind for the Trump administration in a way that the fediverse is not, but any potential actions by the administration will impact not only Bluesky, but the fediverse and the wider open social web as well. It is impossible to predict if these second order effects are beneficial or harmful for the fediverse, since that depends strongly on both the details of any action of the administration against Bluesky, as well as how people on Bluesky will respond in practice.
For now, it means that I’m shifting my writing for Fediverse Report to include this larger political context of the open social web.
The News
During the recent FediForum, Ben Werdmuller gave the keynote speech about “why the open social web matters now”, and the keynote and transcript are now available online. Werdmuller makes the point that we’re seeing a shift into authoritarianism in multiple places, with the US being the most high-profile. He points out that the first step towards dealing with the threat is to have open information ecosystem, and that ecosystem is in decline both on social media (with all Big Tech companies capitulating) and in a decay of journalism. Werdmuller makes a distinction here between social media and social networks, where social media is for scale and broadcasting, and social networking are for trust and collaboration.
Werdmuller then describes how social communities can be build, which starts from a private community, that then connects with other peer communities. All these groups have their own secure (encrypted) spaces. This archipelago of connected places ( 🙂 ) can then step into the public network (the fediverse) and share their messages with the broader world.
What stands out to me is how the process described by Werdmuller is pretty much opposite to how development on both the fediverse and the ATmosphere has happened so far. Development on both networks have started from the ‘big world’ social media approach, by creating public microblogging platforms. The assumption seems to be that over time, once there is an initial group of people who use these public network, private networks will emerge. In the case of ATProto this is fairly explicitly visible, the protocol does not support private data currently, and the developers are only now starting to work on this, once the public version of the protocol is deemed to be completed. For ActivityPub and the fediverse there is more possibilities for people to build such private communities, but there has been little interest in building it out. Mastodon does still not support the possibility for local-only posts for example, posts that are only visible to people on the same server, even though community forks of Mastodon (such as glitch-soc) do support local-only posting.
In the keynote, Werdmuller suggests a radically different approach, saying: “For the open social web to thrive, we need to go back to real communities with real-world use cases and solve their problems better than anything else. Not the needs of individuals within them, but of the interconnected communities themselves.” It is important to be specific here, not by helping abstract groups like ‘journalists’ or ‘organisers’, but specific concrete individual communities. Werdmuller urges to be specific in the solutions as well: “Open source or federation are not solutions in themselves. They’re characteristics of a solution. We need to be concretely meeting needs. Not what you think their needs are or what they should be, but what you’ve learned they are from getting to know them deeply.”
NLnet has completed their latest grant round, and with it, there are a number of ActivityPub-related projects that have received a grant. With the latest grant round, NLnet further cements their crucial role in the ecosystem, funding a large number projects and platforms (as well as this newsletter!).
NLnet funds five existing projects for further development:
Microblogging platform GoToSocial gets a grant for performance as well as additional moderation features. GoToSocial also states here that the goal is to get to a 1.0 version at the end of 2026.
Further improvements to the connector that addsActivityPub to CMS platform Drupal.
GoActivityPub is a set of libraries for ActivityPub in Go.
Flohmarkt is a marketplace platform on ActivityPub that people can self host.
NLnet also funds a new project, with Mirlo. Mirlo is an existing platform for artists to sell their music and merch. The grant from NLnet is to add ActivityPub support to Mirlo and to turn it into a federated, self-hostable platform. This makes the platform fairly similar to Bandwagon, which is also a place for artists to sell their music. Both platforms will likely gravitate towards one ‘main’ instance, with the possibility for artists to self-host their Bandwagon or Mirlo instance, that federates with the other platforms. The main part to watch here is if there will be interoperability between Bandwagon and Mirlo. While ActivityPub allows for the possibility of interoperability between different softwares, it does not guarantee it, and it requires active efforts from developers to make it happen. If and how this interoperability will evolve here, with both Bandwagon and Mirlo tapping into a new market of artist music sharing, is worth a keeping an eye on.
Some updates
The Links
A short video explaining ActivityPub Fuzzer, “a program designed to emulate data across the Fediverse to enhance interoperability between social media platforms”.
A reflection on how to name and describe the new type of app of Newsmast, which combines news articles with the fediverse.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! Next week I’ll dive deeper in to the developments regarding open science and the fediverse, with work by Bonfire and connecting ORCIDs with the fediverse.
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/israels…
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