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Mastodon is an open source, self-hosted, social networking service. Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation which allows users to communicate between independent Mastodon instances and other ActivityPub compatible services. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter, and is generally considered to be a part of the ...
Lemmy is a free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums. [3] [4] [5] These hosts, known as "instances", communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol.
Following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk in November 2022, certain major social networks, including Threads, [21] [22] Tumblr and Flipboard expressed interest in supporting the ActivityPub protocol, as a large number of users began to migrate to Mastodon, a server that supported the fediverse and was also the most popular alternative ...
Bluesky Social … when you’re looking for an alternative to Twitter This Twitter copycat app, backed by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, calls itself a site for “microblogging.”
The social network has become one of the leading alternatives to X, formerly known as Twitter, as some users choose to move away from that site in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover.
Hell, in the last few days alone Twitter has gon. Twitter used to be good. We joked, constantly, about how awful it was — and it could be awful. There was hate speech, and misinformation, and a ...
Twitter's then-CEO Jack Dorsey first announced the Bluesky initiative in 2019 on Twitter to explore the possibility of decentralizing Twitter. [19] [28] The stated goal was to find or develop an open and decentralized standard for social media that would give users more control over their data and experience.
Parler launched in August 2018, billing itself as an unbiased and free speech alternative to larger social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook. [ 41 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] The service was relatively unknown until a December 2018 tweet by conservative commentator and activist Candace Owens brought 40,000 new users to Parler, causing Parler's ...