Inside Meta's quick Threads launch to rival Twitter — and what's next - The Washington Post
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 25
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.
Erin Kissane
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
Even most of the emergent gestures in our interfaces are tweaks on tech-first features
A Twitter bug is restoring deleted tweets and retweets — including my own - The Verge
Can ActivityPub save the internet?
Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
A Tweet Before Dying
The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.
Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm
As promised by CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has open sourced a portion of the source code powering various parts of the social network.
The Shit Show • furbo.org
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 […]
Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh
As Twitter crumbles, Tumblr is welcoming back the internet’s weirdos.
Can Elon Musk turn Twitter into an “everything app”?
“The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk”
So long, and thanks for all the fail whales
A requiem for a meme.
I’m Staying on Twitter
But it matters that Elon Musk now owns it.
Elon takes over Twitter
Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please
Adam Mosseri confirms it: Instagram is over
I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.
Elon bails on Twitter
This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?
The inside story at Meta as it moves beyond Facebook
Land of the Giants explores the social media juggernaut in a moment of transformation.
How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
From the Beatles to One Direction — her new book on the history of fans
Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the 'Instapoets'
With almost 2 million followers, Kaur has made her straightforward poetry about love, heartbreak and womanhood a global sensation
Government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech, with EFF executive director Cindy Cohn
Running headfirst into fights for users’ rights on the internet.
Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight
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.
Elon Musk buys Twitter
What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions
Twitter acquires mobile engagement platform OpenBack – TechCrunch
Twitter is acquiring mobile engagement platform OpenBack, whose team will join Twitter's Bluebird product team and focus on enhancing notifications on Twitter.
Twitter executives finally met the average user
Read to the end for the final crypto update from my dad in Miami
How Twitter plans to add its next 100 million users
Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.
Opinion | One Year After the Jan. 6 Attack, Parler’s C.E.O. Grapples with Big Tech and Trump
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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How to stop a hate raid
Twitch streamers are building tools to combat hate raids.
Does the Internet Make Us Lonely?
Studies of the social impact of the Internet must consider the changing lifestyle of the new economy and not relate solely to industrial-age concepts.