“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”

The 2022 Annual Report is now available for download! As a non-profit organization supported exclusively by donations, we like to keep our community updated on our yearly progress, and 2022 was an interesting year to say the least.

A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

Chaos at Reddit and Twitter have a direct impact on the fediverse. Growth at Lemmy and Kbin. The server database of kolektive.social gets seized by the FBI.

Straight out of undergrad, I applied to a bookselling job and didn’t get it, so I started working in tech. By the end of my first year there, I was

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

As promised by CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has open sourced a portion of the source code powering various parts of the social network.

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

As Twitter crumbles, Tumblr is welcoming back the internet’s weirdos.

“The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk”

A requiem for a meme.

But it matters that Elon Musk now owns it.

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.

This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?

Land of the Giants explores the social media juggernaut in a moment of transformation.

From the Beatles to One Direction — her new book on the history of fans

With almost 2 million followers, Kaur has made her straightforward poetry about love, heartbreak and womanhood a global sensation

Running headfirst into fights for users’ rights on the internet.

The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.

What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions

Twitter is acquiring mobile engagement platform OpenBack, whose team will join Twitter's Bluebird product team and focus on enhancing notifications on Twitter.

Read to the end for the final crypto update from my dad in Miami

Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.

George Farmer doubles down on his efforts to revive a right-leaning social media company that was taken offline a year ago.

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Twitch streamers are building tools to combat hate raids.