‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism https://connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-political-violence-and-open-social-networks-under-authoritarianism/

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 4 September 2025. Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg This month's meeting has no set agenda. Discussions will continue re: FEP 7888/f228 adoption and ongoing FEP drafts.

## 2024 Fediverse Needs Assessment Last year we had over 130 responses representing over 200 servers. We’d love to hear from many more of you this year! Even if you are a one-person instance, your experience administering and moderating content is valuable information we can use to guide our resources and prioritise what we work on. The survey takes a few minutes, all answers are optional, only tell us what you’re comfortable sharing. **Take the 2024 Needs Assessment Survey**. ## 2023 Report Our work is directed by the needs of the communities we serve, and we conduct an open survey of administrators, moderators, and community managers to ascertain their needs and priorities. Read the latest IFTAS Moderator Needs Assessment Report (external link) Sign up to be notified of our next Needs Assessment Survey (external link)

The in-person events at FediCon in Vancouver lit a fire in the Canadian ActivityPub community. One of the louder calls were for a place in the fediverse for ActivityPub discussions; a place for groups to form and for long-running discussions to be had. I was more than happy to get involved. I also wanted such a place, and I've discussed it on and off for the past year. ActivityPub Space is my answer to that call. At the same time, the "fediverse" isn't one singular entity.