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Distributed social media networks have been on my mind for a while, especially during my deep dive into Nostr over the last few months. Being on my mind I …

That comes courtesy of Alessandro Paluzzi, who frequently reverse engineers and reveals Threads and Instagram features. The new option lets you turn fediverse sharing on and off at will and you can easily copy your username formatted for the decentralized Activity Pub social protocol. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said recently that Threads users will also be able to follow and interact with fediverse accounts from Threads, though their accounts will have to be public to do so.

(CTN News) - Threads, the social media platform often referred to as the "Twitter" of Meta, has experienced a surge in popularity.............

Despite delays, the plan to connect Tumblr's blogging site to the wider world of decentralized social media, also known as the "fediverse," is still on,

Meta may launch the web version of Threads, its competitor to X (formerly known as Twitter) early this week, says a report. A web version has been frustratingly missing since the short-form posting service began.

Over the past couple of weeks, my news and Mastodon feeds have been overloaded with discussion of Bluesky. This has made me rather grumpy, but I’ve had a hard time articulating why.

Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social network, isn’t publicly available yet but it’s already become one of the buzziest Twitter alternatives..

A Mastodon app based on the award-winning Twitter app for iOS.

Vivaldi is the first browser to have its own Mastodon instance, Vivaldi Social. Now it is the first to integrate Mastodon into its desktop version.