Laurens Hof

Laurens Hof is an independent analyst covering the open social web. He publishes the Fediverse Report and ATmosphere Report, weekly newsletters tracking the ActivityPub and ATProto ecosystems, with work supported by NLnet and the Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek. Based in Gouda, he operates through Connected Places, where he writes about protocol governance and what kind of public values decentralized social media actually produces.