Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads profile also terminates the Instagram account.

If you’re trying out the new Threads app from Instagram (you can follow me here if you’re on it), you might be wondering if you can use the app on the iPad. By default, the experience isn’t great – Apple has a compatibility mode that allows you to install iPhone apps on iPad, so it […]

Meta says people want a communications platform that’s “sanely run.”

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.

01:26:38 - The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss the vibe shift that is happening on social media and the communal internet. Further re…

The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.

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.

On the day Sarah Oh got laid off from Twitter last November, her friend Gabor Cselle called with his condolences. Then he made her an offer: Would she help him build a better Twitter? Cselle wasn’t trying to reinvent the social media wheel. He just wanted to return to a simpler time on the ...

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

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

We don't know where to go online now.

The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a new feature we added to the Jetpack plugin: a “Share to Mastodon” button. Nice, right? Mastodon is getting more and more popular, and it makes sense to …

Users hate getting logged out, and designers make interfaces that reflect that.

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

building a website that gathers links and gamifies discussion to promote a common parlance

I know we’re deep, deep, deep into the moral panic about social media being uniquely awful, especially for kids. It’s driving all sorts of nonsense, including the false idea that we’re in a uniquel…

The all too common firehose stream has never worked for me. It’s undoubtedly a big reason why I never got properly into Twitter. I gener...

With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon