An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms.

Social networks Bluesky and Mastodon may soon be accessible from within a single app — at least, that's what Bluesky hopes. The new decentralized social network, originally incubated inside Jack ...

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend. While the Twitter-like startup Bluesky has ...

Mastodon, a social media platform that emerged as an alternative to Twitter (now X), makes money from grants, direct ...

Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. Though the concept of the open social web, also known as the fediverse, has been picking up momentum ever since Meta last year introduced its first-ever federated app ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A key aspect of the fediverse is that each server is governed by rules set by the people who operate it. If you think of the fediverse ...

Happy Wednesday! The rules are that you guys aren’t going to fact-check. Send news tips to: [email protected]. Why Threads is opening up to other social networks. Meta is trying something ...