The Tech Wave section of the Surf Shop features the best technology-related custom feeds made by our beta testers.

Cruise down to the bottom of your Home screen and tap into the Surf Shop. Scroll down a bit to find the following feeds (also linked here):

@Sarahp's "Tech News"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jrz4vgrn624tmk0f2t2qt0fw
@seantilley's "Linux Evolution"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfnfkb6bpw2j6dqym8rrfmc9
@mmasnick's "Tech Policy"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jpk2b2xmmbf1qdwbrnssnkcj
@tchambers's "Guardians of the Fediverse"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01j837ez9hfg5pk7aaejw3t8ck

"I think we can help journalists. We can provide a platform for them to get back to their news values. But they have to be willing to try."

@saskia reflects on her time at #IJF25 in her latest edition of FORbetter.

Check it out https://forbetter.ghost.io/anti-big-tech-journalism/

After attending the International Journalism Festival for the first time this year, I hope next year can focus more on the solutions to the problems journalists identified.

Check out my thoughts on my blog: https://forbetter.ghost.io/anti-big-tech-journalism/

Community Feeds are changing!

We’re rolling out updates to our 62 Community Feeds.

Community Feeds bring together topical knowledge across the open social web. They won’t be going anywhere, don’t worry, but they’ll be getting a fresh lick of paint before we launch Channel.org - including changing their name from Feeds to Channels.

Keep an eye out for updates on Channel.org. It’s coming very soon

Community Feeds reach 25,000 followers!

Our knowledge-based Community Feeds have just reached 25,000 followers across the open social web.

Like many, we believe that communities are the future of social media. We're so glad to see our topical feeds helping people find posts on the topics they're interested here on the Fediverse.

We're working on ways to help you build communities of your choice next. Keep an eye out

If you were going to talk about the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo) with regular people —

What would be a catchy hook to catch their attention?

(Reply with your thoughts.)

@zsotykai is a board game aficionado whose Surf feed contains game news, podcasts like The Dice Tower and Shut Up & Sit Down, and YouTube channels like No Rolls Barred and Board Game Barrage. If you wanna jump to just the new podcasts or videos, go to the Listen and Watch tabs, respectively. (This applies to any feed!)

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jj943ywbw55bqwtvsjsfrdyf

May your game game be strong this weekend.

Show us what you’re making on Surf! Use #SurfFeeds when sharing.

Put SURFSHARES as the referral code on the waitlist for speedier access. https://waitlist.surf.social/

#boardgames #boardgame #gaming
#customfeeds #socialweb

Got Mastodon *and* Bluesky accounts you want to link to Surf? (This is the magic of the social web, after all…)

Head to Settings → Manage Accounts to link them up and choose your primary account for posting.

We're heading to Perugia for the #InternationalJournalismFestival

We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza

If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!

Whilst we're away, if you have any issues with Newsmast or our other services, reach out directly to support@newsmast.org

If you're talking about the "open social web", "stakeholders", "community leaders", "social graph", "sustainable growth" and "commercial and open source implementations" then you're most certainly not talking about the Fediverse that I know.

What Fediverse instance do you wish people knew about and why?

#Fediverse #FediverseInstances #Instances #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

Social media and society go hand in hand. Right now, both are in turmoil.

That's why we believe that the focus should be on building community. Groups of people who can come together under the shared banner of an interest, a location, or a belief.

Thanks to the power of the open social web, these communities can not only span across the world, but across platforms.

We're giving you the ability to build community here. Stay tuned

We’re excited to announce that, from Monday, we’re going to be the new admins of IndieWeb.social!

We’ve always loved how @tchambers has run IndieWeb.social. His direction has made it one of the best instances on the Fediverse!

Thanks to Tim for his trust in us to provide a safe and secure home for the server into the future.

Tim’s Blog Post https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/03/27/the-next-stage-for-indiewebsocial.html

FAQs https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/faqs/

This week, it was all about dialing in the details, like improved comment threads and search results.

Surfers, we’d love to hear your thoughts about how it's going for you.

Don't hesitate to drop us a line at feedback@surf.social.

We're helping people join the open social web.

By showing them that they can:
- Own their community
- Escape the billionaires
- Rediscover what makes social good

What else should we tell them about the open social web? Why do you love it?

Social media is more turbulent than ever, reflecting society.

Now is our chance to help people move to democratic, open, social technology like the open social web.

We know that open social alternatives give control back to the user, now it is our job to bring more users to this social space.

If you want to help, share word of the open social web with the people around you.

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