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No, It’s Not Just You: Facebook Is Down for Everyone

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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Pebble’s Last Day — The Short Life of a Truly Social Site

We’re inclined to subtitle this “A Camera’s Eye View of the Death of a Social Platform.”
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FOSS Week in Review: Happy Sysadmin Day, SEC’s New Cyber Attack Rules, and Musk Steals User Handle

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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Why Kolektiva.social Is a Cautionary Tale for Activists Using Mastodon

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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Meta Introduces ‘Threads’ Because It Wants In on the Twitter Exodus

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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TweetDeck Goes Kaflooey

Like the Energizer Bunny, TweetDeck keeps loading and loading and loading…
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Mastodon Introduces Easier Onboarding, With More Improvements on the Way

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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Want to Master Mastodon? There’s an Upcoming Free Webinar for That

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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Why Content Moderation on Mastodon Isn’t the Train Wreck Some on Twitter Say It Is

While content moderation on Mastodon is far from perfect, it may be miles ahead of what’s in second place.
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