Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternative Mastodon, ...

Threads is going deeper into the fediverse, the interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub that includes apps such as Mastodon and BookWyrm. Instagram head ...

Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On The Vergecast: the future of cars, what’s next for ActivityPub, and the price of the iPhone 16E. On The ...

This was a very nice surprise to see: "Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub, just as every ...

Instagram Threads launched, and my Mastodon server went offline. When I went to look at why Mastodon users shouldn’t worry about Meta building on the ActivityPub protocol, I couldn’t — my Mastodon.xyz ...

Meta appeared to be blocking links to Pixelfed, a decentralized photo-sharing platform, on Facebook, according to both users on Bluesky and 404 Media. A small group of posts that linked to ...

Meta is taking another important step toward making Threads interoperable with the fediverse. The app now allows users to follow accounts from Mastodon and other fediverse apps directly from Threads, ...