If you're building apps for the social web, this survey report by Incogni is really worth a read. People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/ Extracts in the thread 🧶 👇
The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use [2026] | Incogni
blog.incogni.comJul 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Apps - Social Media Lab
As part of our work, the Lab develops public-facing information-integrity dashboards, along with research apps and tools, to support social science research on online participation and communities. Our apps and tools are used by thousands of students, educators and researchers worldwide each year. If you are interested in developing a custom version of any of […]
Blue Skies Ahead: Social Media's Quiet User Revolution
In a digital landscape increasingly defined by user concerns over privacy and control, a quiet revolution is taking shape.
Platform Stats — blogs.social
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Growing the Social Web
I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses…
Yet another blog about the state and future of Progressive Web App
Progressive Web Apps are in flux at the moment, these are the opinions of someone who has been working on web apps before they got conflated with Service Workers and new web tech.
Traditional Social Media as a Prison - What’s Happening on My Feed?
Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020-2024: Decline,...
Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES), this paper traces how the U.S. social media landscape has shifted across platforms,...
ActivityPub
Connect your site to the Open Social Web and let millions of users follow, share, and interact with your content from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and more.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.
I think for the open social web, especially the Atmosphere, separating creation and consumption apps that interop are a really good thing. No app has to be a jack of all trades. Blogging apps can focus on writing and distribution tools, reading apps can focus on aggregation and read later etc. 1/
Please join this webinar on Moving from Harmful Platforms to Social Technologies, discussing how digital public goods and other open-source solutions can support the scaling of a more transparent, interoperable, and accountable social technology landscape. 📝 Register Here zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__IHGcRbVR…
At @cascadiajs.com this year I gave a talk about #atproto and the Atmosphere: the open social ecosystem Bluesky and many other apps are built on, and what it means to actually own your data. I made a bunch of silly drawings for it, and I'm sharing them in this 🧵!
Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web: verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social poweruser.surf.social
Big improvements to @skyreader.app making it more social! Articles you share are now published as a @standard.site linkblog. Follow Skyreader linkblogs in any @standard.site reader (or traditional RSS reader!) Finding your people in Skyreader is also now much improved. Let me know what you think!
Skyreader update - Linkblogs, standard.site, and discussions
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