For anyone who wants to understand how Meta works, and their frankly awful hold on social media their threads app and platform no automagically mutes/blocks any talk of Pixelfed as it is an alternative their… Threads muting anything mentioning Pixelfed?
I have seen lots of people talking about the fediverse recently and the low numbers of users versus traditional platforms. This is the main reason I think that many dismiss platforms like Mastodon, Pixelfed and… Fediverse numbers, do they matter?
Meta has had a grilling today over its plans to comply with the DMA laws coming into force in the EU. It appears that they have not managed to convince them they are doing enough… Meta gets a grilling by EU lawmakers
Mastodon has hit the 15 million user accounts milestone. Whilst fairly small in the grand scheme of things I think that’s a pretty decent amount of people on a network with no ads, no real… Mastodon hits 15 million user accounts
The developer of Mastodon, Eugene Rochko, better known as @Gargron has recently celebrated working 8 years on the project. I hope he continues his great work and I’d just like to congratulate him on his… Mastodon developer celebrates 8 years at the helm!
Dansup the creator of Pixelfed has just previewed loops.video which I guess is a Tik Tok like federated short video website. https://loops.video/ I think this will be a great idea and Dansup always seems like… Loops.video
Yesterday my Facebook app had an update and I started to see threads embedded into my FB feed, but before I could screen grab it an update to the app happened and it has disappeared… Meta was advertising Threads on FB!
