Meta has received quite some enthusiastic response to the launch of Threads, a Twitter rival built atop the foundation of Instagram. It's clear Meta harbors far more ambitious plans, and actually ...

The team trying to set up paid subscriptions for platforms like Mastodon has itself run out of funding. The team trying to set up paid subscriptions for platforms like Mastodon has itself run out of ...

Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...

You’ll be able to follow people on other platforms that support ActivityPub, including Mastodon and Threads. You’ll be able to follow people on other platforms that support ActivityPub, including ...

Meta is continuing its slow march toward compatibility with the fediverse. The company has been experimenting with making posts from a handful of accounts available on Mastodon since the end of last ...

Three months after rolling out the beta to users in the U.S., Canada and Japan, Meta has invited Threads users in over 100 countries to turn on sharing to the fediverse – a hub of federated social ...

Fediverse sharing is now available for Threads users in more than 100 countries. Here's how to take advantage of the new setting. Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, ...

Ghost, an open source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps ...

Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting ...

Meta's Threads is inching closer to compatibility with the fediverse -- an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub. A video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday ...

There are times in which it seems oh-so-obvious that tech bros love science-fiction movies. They're obsessed with a vaguely utopian ideal that has no chance in hell of panning out in real life. Or, ...

WordPress released version 1.0.0 of the ActivityPub plugin last week, allowing users to connect their WordPress blog to other social media platforms on the fediverse like Mastodon. Once bloggers ...