Reconsidering Long-Form

The Fediverse has spurred a lot of excitement about independent, alternative forms of non-commercial social media. The most popular uses are based on micro-blogging. However now there is an increasing support for publishing or reading long-form content on the fediverse. From June to September 2025 we researched what separates micro-blogging from long-form publishing and how we could improve its design and uptake. Below you can find our findings and insights.

• About This Project
• Our starting questions
• Methods and Limitations
• Emerging Theme 1: Who wants to federate a full article?
• Emerging Theme 2: Long Tails and Dark Traffic (forthcoming)
• Emerging Theme 3: Tooling Ecosystems
• Reader-Mode: An Experimental Prototype
• Source Code – Git Repo