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Bluesky Appears to Be the Winner in the Fight Between Musk and Brazil

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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Bluesky Introduces New Features to Keep Its Skies Calm… and Blue

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

Yesterday, Pebble, the social network that strived to be a Twitter replacement with a difference, ended the party and shut down for good.
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TweetDeck Goes Kaflooey

Sunday’s TweetDeck issues, which continues at the time of this article, are the third major issue Twitter users have faced in as many days.
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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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Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward

The hot new social network from Twitter’s founders, Bluesky Social, has open-sourced its client software. Here’s why that matters.
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Musk Promises Open-Source Twitter Algorithm, Fires Relevant Staff

Long before taking ownership of Twitter, Musk promised to make it open source. Like so many of his promises, it’s probably one he can’t keep.
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Why Content Moderation on Mastodon Isn’t That Bad

While content moderation on Mastodon is far from perfect, it may be miles ahead of what’s in second place.
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It’s Official: 3rd-Party Twitter Apps No Longer Allowed

Welp, it’s official: 3rd-party Twitter clients are no longer allowed to exist. As per Engadget, the social networking site has updated its developer agreement to state that devs can not “use…

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7 Best Mastodon Instances You Can Join

Are you leaving Twitter for Mastodon? Here are some of the best Mastodon instances you can join to kick-start your experience.
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How to Install Mastodon With Docker on Rocky Linux 9

Mastodon is a free, decentralized, and open-source social network created as an alternative to Twitter. This tutorial will teach you how to set up your instance of Mastodon on a server with Rocky Linux 9 using Docker.
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Why Twitter Will Fail Shortly

Twitter’s staff layoffs leave no one to transition its CentOS 7 operating system to something more up-to-date. With the increased performance issues due to these layoffs, we expect that sometime soon, Twitter will crash badly.
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Russia Blocked Twitter

Russia has blocked Twitter as it continues its invasion of Ukraine. In Russia, Twitter has the most users (31.1 million messages per month), followed by Odnoklassniki (88.5 million m/month), Instagram (135.1 million m/month), and Vkontakte (408.8 million m/month). Today, February 26, NetBlocks, a global internet monitoring service, verifies that Russia…

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Rainbow Stream – An Advanced Command-line Twitter Client for Linux

Rainbow Stream is an advanced command-line Twitter client for Linux users who don’t want to operate from GUI. Learn more here.
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