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This Summer’s Music Festivals Are Gonna Go Hard So Long as You Prep With Some REI Gear for Up to 50% off
Graphic: Joe Tilleli Live large this summer at the next musical festival you attend, whether that’s Coachella, Bonnaroo, or what-have-you.…
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’
Our goal is to combine both approaches—to run a moderation service that tries to provide a baseline and to also…
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The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, experts warned that his proposed changes—including less content moderation and a…
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Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced…
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Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?
Is it possible for a social media platform to plan for its own death? I’ve been thinking about that while…
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Don’t Join Threads—Make Meta’s Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You
As Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, started generating buzz ahead of yesterday’s launch, curious netizens spotted a placeholder listing for the…
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Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point
Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk…
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Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I…
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Truth Social Is Rising as the Anti-Mastodon
Then there’s Mastodon’s code. As Truth Social was under development in 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy accused it of violating a…
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