🗺️ Fediverse Near Me – Open social supporting specific locales and languages
📋 StartHereSocial – Social web app guide / domain picker
📢 Organisations using ActivityPub – companies, NGOs and governments using ActivityPub on their own domain
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- There Is One Fediverse. There Are A Thousand Ways To Join It.When I showed my sister-in-law my toot.wales feed, she gave the response I believe most people genuinely feel: “It’s lovely! If only there was an app.” She doesn’t want a protocol or a lesson in the Fediverse; she just wants a simple way to connect with the community. That’s why we’ve built the Tŵt app. It’s a straightforward, bilingual, and jargon-free front door for Wales on the social web. Here’s why we are choosing clarity over complexity to build a better social experience.
- There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.A shift is happening in how communities choose what matters. The fediverse isn’t a better version of the old platforms, it’s something entirely new. This post explores why we shouldn’t be chasing social media migrations, but instead building something more accessible, relational, and grounded in a different vision of the internet.
- There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.Over the past several years I’ve listened to admins, mods, and community managers from across the decentralised social media landscape. I’ve been in the chats, attended the conferences, read the forum debates, and watched them keep their corners of the internet safe and welcoming for the people who inhabit their communities. One phrase comes up often in these circles: “We need to grow the fediverse.” This always sparks a spirited debate: what does growth mean? Who’s welcome, and who’s not? And what even is “the fediverse” anyway?
Previously on jaz.co.uk…
🔥 FHIR up the Oven! Is Health Data… Pizza? – Essay on allowing patient access to their electronic health records
👾 Impact Assessment – A (pandemic lockdown) short story I wrote for the “Uncommonalities” anthology series.
🇫🇷 Mythmakers: l’équipe – Dijon-based civic program crowdfunding startup
💾 Medical Data Held For Ransom – my experience abstracting data from EHRs for quality improvement
📊 Twelve Years of Health Transparency – an update on the AboutHealthTransparency Web site
🏉 PlayRugby USA – We use the unique power of rugby to empower and inspire youth, primarily from underserved communities, to go forward and realize their true potential.
🧀 Made Completely of Cheese – a poem for Ieuan
🏥 Hospital Retail Pricing for Dummies – my go-to explanation of why hospital bills in the US are wee bit insane
👩⚕️ WhyNotTheBest? – A Web Resource for Quality Improvement Professionals
Connect
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Top Links
☑️ IFTAS – Nonprofit trust and safety resources for federated social
🏴 Tŵt Cymru – the social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad. Ymuna heddiw!
🗺️ Fediverse Near Me – interactive map of open social services
📋 StartHereSocial – onboarding workflow example for new open social users
📢 Organisations Using ActivityPub – database of companies operating their own federated platform
In The Press
📰Welsh social network launches campaign inspired by Dewi Sant – Nation.Cymru
🎧 Fediverse Trust and Safety Warriors – Dot Social Podcast
🎧 Building Trust & Safety – Decentered Podcast
📰 What It’s Like to Run a Mastodon Server in the Musk Twitter Era – The New Stack
📰 Twitter users flock to Mastodon ‘like noisy football fans in the quiet carriage’ – The Times
📰 Creating a new online community for Wales – Parallel Cymru
🎧 Fake News, The Perennial Founder, and the FBI – podcast interview from New York Welsh
Blogroll
📝 IFTAS Blog – Federated Trust & Safety updates
📝 IFTAS Connect Feed – news for content moderators
📖 Michael Missing – American fiction from Michael Hickins
🏴 Tŵt Cymru Blog – toot.wales service announcements