Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says Meta's moderation changes are “deeply troubling”, and Mastodon will take action on Threads accounts violating Mastodon's policies
Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is bending the knee … Wall Street Journal : Sources: Zuckerberg demanded a review of an algorithm change after his 2023 knee surgery Facebook post got anemic ...
Attackers have been signing up spam accounts on smaller Mastodon servers over the past several days; Eugen Rochko said previously only big servers were targeted
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability
including by trying every obvious solution out there— on several occasions. If the problem were easy to solve, it would have been solved by now. The reason we bring up the problem in a public forum ...
Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Eugen Rochk...
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @rickf@indieweb.social : In other words, “please generate needless clicks so I can boost ‘engagement’ on the platform to get more advertisers back, pleeeasseeee.......
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked out to Twitter … Blue...
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform's nonprofit status
Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter Tweets: @suji_yan , @barbariancap , @wilbanks , @tariqkrim , @astaniscia86 , @davewiner , @ma...
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more
As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.