Paper on Fediverse Sharing – Threads and Mastodon users

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Diagram showing the interaction between Threads and Mastodon - activities and databases

Ujun Jeong, a PhD student, posted on r/fediverse about a new paper on Threads and Mastodon. Abstract: Traditional social media platforms, once envisioned as digital town squares, face growing criticism over corporate control, content moderation, and privacy concerns. Events such as Twitter’s acquisition(now X) and major policy changes have driven users toward alternative platforms like … Read more

American Ephemera Archive online

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Reblog via John Overholt

The American Antiquarian Society has made scans of 40,000 pieces of American ephemera, previously only available through a subscription database, accessible for free through its catalog. pastispresent.org/2025/good-so

The interface leaves something to be desired – you can’t just flip through galleries, you have to find an item and request the scanned image – but there’s great stuff in here

Vincent van Gogh: Bank of the Oise at Auvers

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VIa Pomegranate, Vincent Van Gogh: Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1000 piece puzzle. The painting, which is dated 1890 (in the last year of Van Gogh’s life), can be seen in person at the Detroit Institute of Arts. There’s a short video about the painting from the DIA facebook page: https://fb.watch/wBhTrSFfie Van Gogh’s ‘Bank … Read more

Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam

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Via RoseArt / Kodak Premium, Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam – 1000 piece puzzle. I tend to alternate between the Pomegranate style art puzzles, with more muted colors and often more challenging patters, with these Kodak Premium style very colorful and detailed puzzles. There’s more fine detail you can use to place pieces, but still some … Read more