An alternative to Google Maps, how America’s forgotten second national park became a state park, and beavers returning to Portugal after more than 500 years are among the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.
I hope you enjoy them, too!
Continue reading What I Found Interesting: June 18, 2025
Like many people who moved to the fediverse over the past few years, I’ve struggled to explain to folks on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social media what the fediverse is.
And all the benefits it offers.
For me, no ads, no algorithm, no corporate ownership, and no surveillance were the top reasons I left the social media platform formerly called Twitter and moved to Mastodon.
Continue reading New Video Explains the Fediverse
If you’re on Mastodon, the open-source decentralized social network, you’ll notice a new feature highlighting journalism: author byline links.
Which currently means: when a Mastodon user shares a link to an article from The Verge, MacStories, or MacRumors, the author byline will directly link to the author’s associated active fediverse account.
Right in Mastodon.
Continue reading Mastodon Rolls Out Author Bylines for Media Organizations, Journalists, and Bloggers