This week we feature articles from Richard MacManus, and Chris Nielsen. Additional reading comes from Alan Morrison, Mikkel Dengsøe, and Isaac Caswell & Ankur Bapna. News comes from Google Translate, Acquia, Cloudflare, and Elastic Search. Opinion / Analysis… Does the fediverse point to our social media future? Well, perhaps. There is certainly much that is appealing about the open source, standards-based, decentralized…