Apple sales have fallen in nearly all markets in the first 3 months of 2024, with drops of over 10% in most markets. This is similar to all the other tech giants reporting lower sales…
Tik Tok looks like it is trying to do an Epic and dodge the Apple tax where it can…. this is likely to result in a ban (not that they seem worried about that) https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146142/tiktok-coins-dodge-apple-app-store-commission-epic
Mastodon has setup a US non-profit entity to help it with US donations and on the board is a certain Biz Stone who was co-founder of Twitter. Interesting times ahead, but already it has annoyed…
Peertube the video site a bit like Youtube has been upgraded to V6.1. Highlights include account backup, security fixes and a few more… https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-6.1
The bad news for Twitter continues after a major spat with Australia about free speech backfires. This article in the UK (Guardian) kinda resonates with me. I haven’t posted on X/Twitter in years as it…
Japan has joined the hundreds of countries calling for legal action on Facebook/Meta scams with a threat to called Mark Zuckerberg to testify. This follows on from the many other legal battles the company is…
President Biden has signed into law the bill giving Tik Tok owners ByteDance 270 days to sell the app or lose being able to operate in the US. This is big – this is huge.…
Although I have known about this for a bit at last I have a report shedding more light on how Meta lies about how secure Whats App is. I know lots of people who *think*…
I’ve seen it reported on a few websites (so far all paywalled/access controlled) that Meta Threads has overtaken X/Twitter on daily active users. This is a really big thing for both – the rise of…
Whilst nothing new to me and many others, it is nice to see that everywhere people are reporting on the drop in engagement being seen across social media, especially on Meta owned platforms. I have…
