A new update to Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media platform Threads will allow users to connect their social media profiles to the fediverse, which will allow them to be visible on other platforms ...

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms.

Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its ...

Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. Though the concept of the open social web, also known as the fediverse, has been picking up momentum ever since Meta last year introduced its first-ever federated app ...

As part of this newsletter’s farewell to Twitter, I was going to begin with a nostalgic look back at my earliest tweets from 2007, which—true to early stereotypes about the site—tended to involve me ...

Social networks Bluesky and Mastodon may soon be accessible from within a single app — at least, that's what Bluesky hopes. The new decentralized social network, originally incubated inside Jack ...

Happy Wednesday! The rules are that you guys aren’t going to fact-check. Send news tips to: [email protected]. Why Threads is opening up to other social networks. Meta is trying something ...

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"Millions of connections" from social network X will be re-established on rivals BlueSky or Mastodon from Monday, a French researcher said, in a campaign timed to coincide with Donald Trump's ...

A new ‘Packs’ feature will help you fill up your feed on Mastodon. A new ‘Packs’ feature will help you fill up your feed on Mastodon. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...