FR#154 – Search and Community

Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)

#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source! This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected! My full article - with a great analysis by @aral@mastodon.ar.al: 🔗: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/ #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech

Lab Notes #006: Open Collections and Community Stewardship - Cosmik Labs

Details on our first step towards supporting community stewardship and collaborative curation

Lab Notes #006: Open Collections and Community Stewardship - Cosmik Labs

Details on our first step towards supporting community stewardship and collaborative curation

lieu — alexander cobleigh / cblgh.org

a purpose-built community search engine and how to use it

Holos Discover - Search the Fediverse

A privacy-respecting search engine for Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and the Fediverse.

Details on Omnivore shutting down

I wanted to share additional info about Omnivore’s shutdown, and ways to use your Omnivore data going forward.

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02

Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati is shutting down after a US terrorist designation

A US sanctions listing cost the 25-year-old Italian collective its .org domain, its payment processor and its bank within a week.

A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free

The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure.

Widely Viewed Content Report: What People See on Facebook | Transparency Center

Facebook regularly publishes reports to give our community visibility into community standards enforcement, government requests and internet disruptions

The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner

And a community proposal to fix it.

The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner

And a community proposal to fix it.

The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner

And a community proposal to fix it.

Home Page

We are an international community of communities bound by a common interest in persistent infrastructure. So far, we have welcomed agencies that manage communities spanning entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections, scholarly communications, and research data.

Social Media Ban Repository – information labs

Is a ban a plan? Academics, rights organisations, and policymakers across Europe and beyond are warning against blanket social media bans for minors.