Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse
We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news. Mastodon: @stefan@gardenstate.social , @jangles@mastodon.social , @Cassandra@artisan.chat , @timbray@cosoci...
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bird logo Kyle Barr / G...
A look at Spill, an invite-only Twitter alternative designed as a safe destination for LGBTQ and Black people that added 100K+ users over the past three days
What Are Spill and Threads? Sayou Cooper / The Daily Dot : ‘Catch me on Spill’: Black Twitter finds an alternative app Kyra Alessandrini / Blavity News & Politics : Black-Owned Social Media App ‘Spill...
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page
https://www.theverge.com/... @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social : You can no longer view tweets if you're not logged in to twitter. — You can't even view someone's twitter profile, not even if it's public....
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight
DeSantis to share '24 campaign debut with Musk Madeline Berg / Insider : Twitter is starting to look a lot like Fox News Sofia Lotto Persio / Quartz : 🌎 DeSantis's risky gamble The Guardian : With DeS...
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
Mastodon rolls out a new onboarding experience that defaults to the mastodon.social server, instead of requiring new users to pick from thousands of instances
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/ ... Melanie / @MistyMelanie@mastodon.social : Please DO NOT quote post me. — The feature isn't even here yet, but just the idea of it is causing me so much anxiety. Q...
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023
Ahead Of Twitter's Looming Verification Rollback Muskaan Saxena / TechRadar : Twitter's blue-check doomsday date is set and it's no April Fool's joke Megan Ellis / MakeUseOf : Twitter to Start Removin...
Twitter plans to discontinue free access to its API starting on February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and launch a “paid basic tier” instead
This week I spent too many minutes watching Nothing, Forever, which is a Twitch stream that runs 24/7. Mastodon: Kate Starbird / @katestarbird@mstdn.social : Looks like Twitter is eliminating free acc...
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek admits the company accidentally sent 320K ETH (~$416M) meant for cold storage to crypto exchange Gate.io, which returned the funds
There are very suspect events happening at Crypto.Com. Vishal Chawla / The Block : Crypto.com accidentally transferred $400 million worth of ETH to another exchange, CEO says Justin Roberti / Benzinga...