This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.

This week I wrote about fediverse as a countercultural place for pop culture, and how that affects goals to bring the fediverse into the mainstream

As well as the news:

  • @iftas announces that due to a lack of funding, they will likely have to wind down some crucial services for safety on the fediverse
  • Tapestry is a new “timeline” app by @Iconfactory
  • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    As someone who watched the super bowl and actively looked at posts in the fediverse on my second screen, I think that @[email protected] missed out on posts because he looked under the “superbowl” hashtag which had been taken over by people posting owls. Quite a few posts about the game and the halftimeshow happened under inconsistent hashtags like #nfl, #sblix, #superbowllix, #halftimeshow, #superbowl2025, #superbowlhalftime, #kcvsphi, etc. Some people used no hashtags at all and I found their posts by fulltext-searching for terms like “Mahomes”. Mainly seemed to me like people werent in agreement with each other on which hashtag to use for their posts.