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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 ...
Twitter has a history of both using and releasing open-source software while overcoming technical challenges of their service. [259] A page in their developer documentation thanks dozens of open-source projects which they have used, from revision control software like Git to programming languages such as Ruby and Scala. [260]
Twitter's then-CEO Jack Dorsey first announced the Bluesky initiative in 2019 on Twitter to explore the possibility of decentralizing Twitter. [17] [26] 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.
As Twitter users fret over the direction that new owner Elon Musk is taking the company, masses of users have hopped over to Mastodon, an open-source Twitter alternative. The news that Twitter is ...
Open source Twitter alternative Mastodon has gained a bit of attention in the wake of Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. The makers of popular Twitter clients, including Aviary and Tweetbot, have ...
Nitter is a discontinued free and open source alternative viewer for Twitter, focusing on privacy and performance. [2] [3] Features.
Twitter released TextSecure as free and open-source software under the GPLv3 license in December 2011. [55] [62] [63] [64] RedPhone was also released under the same license in July 2012. [65] Marlinspike later left Twitter and founded Open Whisper Systems as a collaborative Open Source project for the continued development of TextSecure and ...
Twimight was an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client let users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.