Creator Stack - Federated Mind

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fediverse-beyond-mastodon

The Visual Fediverse: Where Photos and Videos Live Outside the Algorithm

Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube, and a Flickr that never quite federated. The visual fediverse isn't one Instagram clone. It's an ecosystem where your photos and videos live on infrastructure you control, federate by default, and no algorithm decides who sees them.

exploring-mastodon

The Exploring Mastodon mini series is complete. Here's everything.

Four posts on how the open social web works - from federation basics to server governance. Also out: free ebook + 57-min audiobook.

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AI

The Reason AI Makes the Open Web More Necessary — and Easier to Build On

AI is flooding mainstream platforms with synthetic content while simultaneously making self-hosted, creator-owned infrastructure easier to run than ever. That's not a coincidence. It's an opportunity.

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Fediverse

What the #$*! is a Fediverse?

The internet used to be connected. Then it wasn't. Here's the movement trying to fix that — and why it matters for every creator online.

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Fediverse

Your Social Graph Doesn't Belong To You

Why creators are renting their audience instead of owning it — and what that actually costs.