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“Twitterrific was our flagship app, and by far earned the most of any of our pieces of software we’ve produced. Its loss is still being felt revenue-wise to this day. We’re hopeful that Tapestry will […]
I’ve not done an in-depth look at this network but reading through their documentation shows it has a lot of similarity to the basics of the Nostr protocol and network. There is just not as […]
Long before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is doomed to disappear. These […]
As Notopoulos writes, the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have (my edit: the Fediverse is a better one to move to, from the one [implying X […]
I was on many of these networks, but something I see fairly common across many of them, is they were acquired or shut down by other large social networks. I suppose if you are a […]
Actually, with most server based social networks your identity is linked to theirs, and their admin has final control over everything i.e. whether your account stays up, whether you can use a specific identity on […]
Bridgy Fed turns your web site into its own Fediverse account, visible in Mastodon and beyond. You can post, reply, like, repost, and follow Fediverse accounts by posting on your site with microformats2 and sending […]
Apart from you apparently not being able to delete your Threads profile, it contains similar metadata spying clauses that the other Meta products do about all sorts of metadata that can be tracked and passed […]
Twitter has now begun locking visitors out of the platform unless they’re logged into their account. Visiting any Twitter page other than the homepage without being signed in will automatically forward users to a page […]
Like Mastodon is a social network on the Fediverse, as is Pixelfed and Misskey, Calckey is also such a social network in its own right. Like the others it is also interconnected by ActivityPub to […]