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🗞️ New essay

Bluesky and Mastodon users have drastically different perceptions to the UK's new age verification laws: either treating their platform is exactly the same as a Big Tech platform, or assuming their network is so different the laws dont apply

https://connectedplaces.online/age-ver ification-laws-are-the-new-social-networks-different-or-not-at-all/

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🗞️ New essay

Bluesky and Mastodon users have drastically different perceptions to the UK's new age verification laws: either treating their platform is exactly the same as a Big Tech platform, or assuming their network is so different the laws dont apply

https://connectedplaces.online/age-ver ification-laws-are-the-new-social-networks-different-or-not-at-all/

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Fediverse Report is now Connected Places!

As the open social web grows, my writing has expanded to cover the large variety of places within this connected network of platforms. Fundamentally I think the open social web are Connected Places. The platforms, instances and communities we're building are digital places, connected via open protocols.

This name changes better reflects what my writing is all about. To read more: https://connectedplaces.online/welcome-to-connected-places/

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Fediverse Report is now Connected Places!

As the open social web grows, my writing has expanded to cover the large variety of places within this connected network of platforms. Fundamentally I think the open social web are Connected Places. The platforms, instances and communities we're building are digital places, connected via open protocols.

This name changes better reflects what my writing is all about. To read more: https://connectedplaces.online/welcome-to-connected-places/

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The Fediverse Report is a curated blog, giving you links and context to all the news that is happening in the fediverse, as well as two newsletters:

Every week you get 'Last Week in the Fediverse', with a summary of the relevant news of the week.

Every other Sunday you get 'Sunday readings: analysis of the fediverse', that gives you three articles worth reading, as well as commentary on them.

You can find the Fediverse Report at https://fediversereport.com/

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The Fediverse Report is a curated blog, giving you links and context to all the news that is happening in the fediverse, as well as two newsletters:

Every week you get 'Last Week in the Fediverse', with a summary of the relevant news of the week.

Every other Sunday you get 'Sunday readings: analysis of the fediverse', that gives you three articles worth reading, as well as commentary on them.

You can find the Fediverse Report at https://fediversereport.com/