Fediverse

Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means

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Mark Zuckerberg made his first post in the “fediverse” on Thursday. If you have no idea what the hell that means, join the club. The fediverse is a relatively new concept for social networking, and Threads became the largest member of it this week. Millions of Threads users will soon be able to opt in … Read more

Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

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Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself. During the FediForum conference on Tuesday, Meta’s Peter Cottle showed off a brief demo of how users will eventually be able to connect their accounts and posts to the fediverse. The integration … Read more

What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users

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Rachel Lambert, a product manager at Meta, started her company’s journey towards interoperability by breaking Adam Mosseri’s Threads account. In December, Meta activated a test where users could follow the head of Instagram’s Threads feed on an open-source social media platform, Mastodon. But when users tried to view Mosseri’s posts over on Mastodon, nothing showed … Read more

Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the fediverse

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The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse. It’s been more than a year since Musk showed up at Twitter HQ … Read more

Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse

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On Friday, two days after Threads finally started publicly testing ActivityPub integration, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared a thread on Threads detailing the company’s plans for its continued integration with the fediverse. Right now, it’s possible to follow a few Threads accounts (including Mosseri’s) from other platforms, but Meta has much bigger plans for Threads … Read more

Stanford Report Suggests Mastodon Has Baby Abuse Materials Drawback

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A brand new report means that the lax content material moderation insurance policies of Mastodon and different decentralized social media platforms have led to a proliferation of kid sexual abuse materials. Stanford’s Web Observatory revealed new analysis Monday that exhibits that such decentralized websites have severe shortcomings in relation to “baby security infrastructure.” Sadly, that … Read more