Some practical updates for Connected Places:

I’m happy to announce that I’ve gotten a grant from NLnet’s Open Social Fund! The goal of the Open Social Fund is to promote and support the growth of ActivityPub and the fediverse. This is a great fit with the work I’m doing with Connected Places: I write about the ActivityPub and the fediverse because I care deeply about building healthier social online, and I think it is worth understanding in detail how these new networks function. As such, NLnet supports Connected Places with a grant to write weekly Fediverse Reports for the next year, as well as an in-depth analysis article every month.

Some practical details for accountability:

• The grant covers 48 publications of a weekly Fediverse Report, and 12 in-depth articles about the fediverse.
• The grant only covers these writings, and not my other publications.
• NLnet does not have any say in my writing or editing, and I retain full editorial control of the output.
• These articles will be published under CC-BY-SA. I’ll likely put all my articles under this license, but that’s still to be determined.
• Articles funded by the NLnet grant will also be recognisable by a banner at the bottom of the page, for an illustration I’ve added the banner to this page as well.

For other practical news, I’m taking it a bit slower this summer to have some more time to chill and work on some other projects. I’ll be publishing something every week, but not necessarily according to the schedule of Tuesdays Fediverse Report, Thursdays Bluesky Report and Fridays the email newsletter essay. I’m also taking this opportunity to experiment a bit more with the format. For example, for this week’s Fediverse Report I’m taking a look at the various clients in the fediverse ecosystem. Feedback on what works and what does not work is much appreciated.

Thanks again for all your support, I’m super happy to be able to say that Connected Places will be around for another year to cover this interesting and dynamic space!

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https://connectedplaces.online/funding-update-and-summer-schedule/