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For many people who have stepped away from Twitter, Mastodon is their first experience with a decentralized social network. There’s a lot that can be said about the pros and cons of decentralization, ...

Instagram Threads isn’t the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps, with its newly added support for the networking protocol ActivityPub.

Install one plugin and Mastodon—and eventually Threads—users can follow your blog. March 28, 2024 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google I miss blogs. Don't get me ...

I'm ready to connect my WordPress blog with the fediverse and watch someone randomly yell at me on Mastodon. That's the future that's available... today! In a blog post, the company announced that ...

In a move toward the “fediverse,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that the company is running a test that makes posts from its X competitor app, Threads, accessible on Mastodon, a ...

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Open platforms keep ...

Newsletter platform Ghost is the latest service to pledge support for ActivityPub, the open source protocol powering the fediverse. The company announced Monday it would add ActivityPub support later ...

The ActivityPub plug-in is now available for all WordPress.com plans, allowing users to communicate with each other across other federated platforms like Mastodon. The ActivityPub plug-in is now ...