Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.

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Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now seems to define the site, and indeed much of the rest of the social media landscape. On most platforms such a [...]Read More...

Mastodon launches hosting and support services to generate revenue and expand the open social web.

Over the past week, conservative media have turned up their fury toward the free encyclopedia to a degree rarely seen in its 24-year history.

Despite what right-wing influencers want you to believe, liberals actually hate political violence.

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

Bluesky has chosen to block access in the state rather than risk potential fines of up to $10,000 per violation.

I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.

Open communication has been a central part of fostering innovation, this is threatened in the modern digital age.

Meta's Threads is doubling down on support for custom feeds as it faces challenges from the growing social network Bluesky, now with over 30 million

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Sucking in data you didn’t ask permission for? Sounds familiar.

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The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in deep space.

I drive long distances for my job, so my self-driving Cybertruck helps reduce my exhaustion. But angry people just put their hate of Elon Musk on me.

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