There are many reasons why you would want to block Threads access to your data and posts on Mastodon – privacy and your data being used (as it is on other Meta apps/services) to train… Want to block Threads on Mastodon?
The bad news for these 3 giants continues to pile up, after the DoJ accuses Apple of monopolising smartphones in the US, the EU has started wide-ranging investigations into the big 3. After record fines… EU opens investigations into Meta, Alphabet (Google) and Apple
With the news about Meta Threads having Beta access to ActivityPub and how a lot of instances are blocking them, I started a poll on Mastodon. Currently after a couple of days it is neck… Threads – to federate or not to federate, that IS the question!
For anyone who wants to understand how Meta works, and their frankly awful hold on social media their threads app and platform no automagically mutes/blocks any talk of Pixelfed as it is an alternative their… Threads muting anything mentioning Pixelfed?
I have seen lots of people talking about the fediverse recently and the low numbers of users versus traditional platforms. This is the main reason I think that many dismiss platforms like Mastodon, Pixelfed and… Fediverse numbers, do they matter?
Meta has had a grilling today over its plans to comply with the DMA laws coming into force in the EU. It appears that they have not managed to convince them they are doing enough… Meta gets a grilling by EU lawmakers
Mastodon has hit the 15 million user accounts milestone. Whilst fairly small in the grand scheme of things I think that’s a pretty decent amount of people on a network with no ads, no real… Mastodon hits 15 million user accounts
The developer of Mastodon, Eugene Rochko, better known as @Gargron has recently celebrated working 8 years on the project. I hope he continues his great work and I’d just like to congratulate him on his… Mastodon developer celebrates 8 years at the helm!
Dansup the creator of Pixelfed has just previewed loops.video which I guess is a Tik Tok like federated short video website. https://loops.video/ I think this will be a great idea and Dansup always seems like… Loops.video
