PeerTube has a new update for their mobile app, the Mastodon team is growing, and more.##
The News<li>PeerTube has officially <a href="https://joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1">launched</a>; their apps as a v1, some four months after the apps became available in beta. Some new features include the ability to log in with an existing PeerTube account (up until now you’d log in with a local account that only existed in the app itself), commenting from the app, and playlist and channel management options.</li><li>Mastodon <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/">announced</a>; some updates on how their team is evolving. The organisation is currently in the process of setting up a Foundation in Europe. Mastodon is also growing their team, and the organisation now consists of 15 employees. Mastodon’s news update is a followup on their announcement from January 2025, in which Mastodon said that current CEO Eugen Rochko would step down. A new CEO has not been announced yet by Mastodon. In the previous update, Mastodon also said that they would need a €5 million annual operating budget. There are some new team members related to fundraising, but Mastodon has not made a clear statement yet on how exactly they will raise the money needed for this budget.</li><li>Evan Prodromou of the Social Web Foundation has <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/04/29/places-pub/">published</a>; a first version of <a href="https://places.pub/">places.pub</a>;. It is a service that <em>“makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as <a href="https://activitypub.rocks/">ActivityPub</a> objects.”</em>; The goal is for other fediverse software to integrate with places.pub to have a standardised way to refer to geospatial objects via ActivityPub.</li><li>A <a href="https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-114/">follow-up on last week’s news</a> regarding the Fosstodon server: the server administration will be taken over, with an update and introduction by the new admin <a href="https://hub.fosstodon.org/update-from-gina">here</a>;. </li>##
The Links<li>A <a href="https://github.com/solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythm">recommendation algorithm</a> for PeerTube videos. It is a browser extension that records your PeerTube viewing history, and uses that to generate recommendations to watch.</li><li>PieFed development <a href="https://piefed.social/post/709384">updates</a>; for April. </li><li>The fediverse statistics site FediDB is getting an <a href="https://new.fedidb.org/">update</a>;, and can now be <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114426635377316950">self-hosted</a>; as well. </li><li><a href="https://video.fedihost.co/w/os8cetziL1mDQHby2gxbny">Talking Protocols With Evan Prodromou </a>– <em>FediHost Podcast. </em></li><li><a href="https://video.fedihost.co/w/dCAM2gVDtRTWh3UD9CppFD">How To Make Your Mastodon Feed More Algorithmic</a> – <em>FediHost Tutorial</em>.</li><li>Ghost now gives blog authors the <a href="https://activitypub.ghost.org/blocking-users/">ability</a>; to block users. </li>That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:<input type="hidden" name="nr" value="minimal"><input type="hidden" name="nlang" value=""><input class="tnp-email" type="email" required="" name="ne" value="" placeholder="Email"><input class="tnp-submit" type="submit" value="Yep, I want to receive the newsletters" style="">
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