Skip to content
fediverse

Fediverse numbers, do they matter?

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… 

meta

Meta gets a grilling by EU lawmakers

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… 

mastodon

Mastodon hits 15 million user accounts

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 developer celebrates 8 years at the helm!

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… 

Loops.video

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… 

apple logo

More Apple woes…

Apple has lost yet another legal case! This time after Tim Cook lost pension funds and investors huge amounts of money. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68580235

meta

Meta was advertising Threads on FB!

Yesterday my Facebook app had an update and I started to see threads embedded into my FB feed, but before I could screen grab it an update to the app happened and it has disappeared… 

tiktok

Tik Tok ban and future NOT resolved

Despite the US Senate passing the bill making Tik Tok owner ByteDance divest itself of the app in 6 months or face a ban there will also be a review. Big decisions ahead as the… 

tiktok

Tik Tok comes under more pressure

Tik Tok is coming under more pressure as its links to the Chinese government are probed more and more. The US bill to force Tik Toks owners ByteDance to sell is gaining traction, whilst in…