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…
There has been a lot of debate about AI music since a Udio generated Depeche Mode style song emerged a couple of weeks back. Now the same person has uploaded another Depeche Mode style AI…
The moves to make ByteDance sell Tik Tok has again passed in the House today. Read more below https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/24135163/tiktok-ban-divest-bytedance-house-foreign-aid-package
