Press coverage of the Fediverse

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article is paywalled "At Donald Trump's deployment as US President, the tech director behind Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, was among the specially invited along with, among others, Elon Musk, who owns X. After the insertion, dropped Meta's platforms - and deleted X and Tiktok.

Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on

After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard's newest app,

Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (aka the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon

A new update from Meta's X competitor Instagram Threads allows users to connect more with the fediverse, which is also called the open social web and A new update from Threads allows users to follow profiles from other fediverse servers.

Threads users can now see who follows them and likes their posts from other fediverse servers, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed.

A TechCrunch article about Social Web Foundation

It’s a small advance, but one that speaks to Meta’s enginerring team paying attention to how the fediverse community is trying to educate Threads users about the possibilities.

“There’s a lot of free labor that runs the fediverse right now.”

One of the big Aha effects for people new to the Fediverse is when they realize they can follow the US presidents' Threads account from Mastodon.

The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse.