Why does mastodon show news ?
In the Mastodon app, there is a News tab, why is that ? Is it a way do monetize the service or just a help to check up on the hot news going on on Mastodon ?
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests (mashable.com)
These numbers are legitimately shocking....
Threads is oficially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.threads.net)
Mark Zuckerberg: Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.
Instagram Users Shown Transphobia As Promotional Tool To Join Threads (neuromatch.social) Polish
Crosspost from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/6861256...
BBC extending Mastodon social media trial (www.bbc.co.uk)
BlueskyBridge: Opt-Out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered (github.com)
How do I engage?
I never used Twitter. Reddit was the only social media I engaged/posted on for years, moved to Lemmy a couple months ago. I made an account on Mastodon, downloaded moshidon, followed a bunch of hashtags, now I don’t know what to do. Do I just start posting “Facebook status” type posts? Is Mastodon basically like individual...
Get URLs for all tweets within date range?
What is the best tool to get URLs for all tweets within a given date range?...
You can now join Bluesky without an invitation (www.washingtonpost.com)
What server should I join?
I’m thinking about joining mastodon, but I don’t know what server to go with, and the list of servers seems to have very little information about each. Right now I think I’ll open an account on mastodon.social....
Block Meta/Facebook from Mastodon (tilde.town)
(This is an extended version of one of the most widely re-shared post I have ever written on Mastodon.)...
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
Is there room for another kind of decentralized social media?
Why is there Mastodon and Pixelfed?
Why is there #Mastodon and #Pixelfed?...
Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Threads' roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been
House of J (John+Joan Mastodon), or: Five Ways the Fediverse could help to save Liberal Democracy (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
HELP: Fediverse app / network that allows the following?
Hi everyone,...
Bluesky has now thread reply controls (bsky.app) Polish
Options include nobody, anybody, and mentioned or followed users. And, by the way, individual Bluesky post are now visible to logged-out users
Threads' federation is already using a deny list. And Authorised Fetch.
Soapbox lead developer, Alex Gleason discovered, that at least 5 Fediverse instances are blocked by Threads. These are:...
I came across this on Artifact (justingarrison.com)
I came across this blogpost regarding Mastodon. I would love to get you guys thoughts. This is from earlier in the year, the authors thoughts may have changed but not likely. Some points make sense others not so much. https://artifact.news/posts/p/4808379356679562208?s=6007865051323234948
When are Groups comming ?
Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)
A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agency (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/6792877...
Threads' federation will be opt-in, at least for now (www.threads.net) Polish
@mosseri: The current plan is you'll have to have a public account and explicitly opt in to your content being available on other servers. This is consistent with what other large players like WordPress are doing, but somewhat controversial within the Mastodon community. If we end defaulting people in, we'll absolutely offer an...
