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It was first rumored a few months ago that Meta-owned Instagram was working on a new text-based app. The reports also suggested that the new app was built on the back of Instagram and would compete with Twitter. And after a bit of a quiet…

Bluesky is giving tough competition to Elon Musk-led Twitter. The social media platform made a buzz online after it was opened to the public on an invitation basis. The platform innovates the general workings of social networking platforms…

Ever since Twitter was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk, the user base has been highly polarized on the platform. While one-half of the Twitter population has been on board with the new developments, the other half is not at all happy.…

Mozilla wants to build a better social media platform inside of Mastodon, and being “neutral” is not part of the plan. In a blog post, Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s Chief Product Officer, announced that the company is expanding its…

If you tried to sign up for Mastodon before today and gave up, you might have an easier go of it this time. In a blog post, the company announced a new onboarding experience that makes it easier for users to sign up for the…

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is looking into a new social media platform that could potentially rival Twitter, as the company remains in turmoil under CEO Elon Musk’s leadership. “We’re exploring a standalone decentralized social…

Tweetbot might be dead, but Tapbots isn’t waiting around for the next thing. Tapbots has officially launched Ivory, its new Mastodon client. At launch, Ivory is available for both the iPhone and iPad. The company says that the…

When Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so you could watch little dots popping up all over the globe.…

We’ve made our peace with doomscrolling. That’s just the way it is, we say — there’s bad news in the world; it comes at us in a steady stream; attached is a string of responses that are inane at best, violent and invasive at worst. But…

The founder of Mastodon has said he has rejected approaches from more than five US-based investors, as the Twitter rival grows in popularity after Elon Musk’s chaotic debut as a social media owner.Eugen Rochko, who launched the open-source…