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🗺️ Fediverse Near Me – Open social supporting specific locales and languages
📋 StartHereSocial – Social web app guide / domain picker
📢 Organisations using ActivityPub – companies, NGOs and governments using ActivityPub on their own domain
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Latest Blog Posts

• There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.
  A shift is happening in how communities choose what matters. The fediverse isn’t a better version of the old platforms, it’s something entirely new. This post explores why we shouldn’t be chasing social media migrations, but instead building something more accessible, relational, and grounded in a different vision of the internet.
• There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.
  Over the past several years I’ve listened to admins, mods, and community managers from across the decentralised social media landscape. I’ve been in the chats, attended the conferences, read the forum debates, and watched them keep their corners of the internet safe and welcoming for the people who inhabit their communities.  One phrase comes up often in these circles: “We need to grow the fediverse.” This always sparks a spirited debate: what does growth mean? Who’s welcome, and who’s not? And what even is “the fediverse” anyway?
• Digital Belonging: Why Language and Locality Matter
  I grew up in Wales during a time when our language and culture were under pressure. That experience shaped my belief in the importance of digital spaces where people can speak their own language, connect locally, and be truly seen. This is why I care so deeply about language and regional inclusion in the Fediverse. The tools we use shape the communities we build. If we want a more equitable, pluralistic digital future, we must design for it – starting with language, location, and the right to participate fully.

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Previously on jaz.co.uk…

🔥 FHIR up the Oven! Is Health Data… Pizza? – Essay on allowing patient access to their electronic health records

👾 Impact Assessment – A (pandemic lockdown) short story I wrote for the “Uncommonalities” anthology series.

🇫🇷 Mythmakers: l’équipe – Dijon-based civic program crowdfunding startup

💾 Medical Data Held For Ransom – my experience abstracting data from EHRs for quality improvement

📊 Twelve Years of Health Transparency – an update on the AboutHealthTransparency Web site

🏉 PlayRugby USA – We use the unique power of rugby to empower and inspire youth, primarily from underserved communities, to go forward and realize their true potential.

🧀 Made Completely of Cheese – a poem for Ieuan

🏥 Hospital Retail Pricing for Dummies – my go-to explanation of why hospital bills in the US are wee bit insane

📊 Illinois Public Reporting

👩‍⚕️ WhyNotTheBest? – A Web Resource for Quality Improvement Professionals