Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse ( techcrunch.com )
Flipboard becomes a federated app with support for ActivityPub | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Google’s best Gemini demo was faked ( techcrunch.com )
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon ( techcrunch.com )
"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw.... existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement... "
X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film ( techcrunch.com )
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought ( techcrunch.com )
Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat ( techcrunch.com )
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service ( techcrunch.com )
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators ( techcrunch.com )
Excellent work
Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails. ( techcrunch.com )
Hackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Lyrak ( techcrunch.com )
Looks like another microblogging service promising Fediverse integration.
Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy ( techcrunch.com )
