It took a minute — actually a long minute — but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a “goodbye.”
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Remember Digg? The once-upon-a-time go-to site for finding cool things on the internet recommended by an audience of peers? Well, it’s coming back, and owned by one of its original co-founders, along with a co-founder of Reddit.
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Bluesky, which runs on open source software and is based on an open protocol for social platforms, has lately seen it’s user base take a 10-fold increase as Brazil shutters TwitterX.
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If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon’s federated world easy.
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Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.
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If you think it’s no fun being a Facebook user today, just thank you’re stars that your not technical staff at Meta.
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We’re inclined to subtitle this “A Camera’s Eye View of the Death of a Social Platform.”
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Be nice to your SysAdmin, SEC makes rules for reporting cyber attacks, and Musk purloins a user’s $40,000 Twitter X handle.
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A Mastodon server that focuses on left-leaning political activists, recently had an unencrypted copy of its database confiscated by the FBI.
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Mark Zuckerberg, otherwise known as the Musk of Meta, evidently wants some of the ex-Twitter users that Elon has been shedding from Twitter to join the fun on Instagram.
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Like the Energizer Bunny, TweetDeck keeps loading and loading and loading…
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New users of the social networking platform Mastodon no longer need to choose an instance before opening an account. The platform says that other new improvements are “coming soon.”
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A free webinar being presented this week by Social Movement Technologies might be just the thing for disgruntled Twitter users making the move to Mastodon.
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While content moderation on Mastodon is far from perfect, it may be miles ahead of what’s in second place.
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