Elon Musk has announced that new X/Twitter users will have to wait 3 months or pay to be verified to post because of the rampant bot problem the platform has….I don’t use X/Twitter/whateveritiscalledthisweek any more… X users to pay before posting etc.
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
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
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!
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… Meta was advertising Threads on FB!
If you use WordPress like this website does, and you want to share your posts on Mastodon and other activitypub platforms then there are several options available, but for me this plugin is the best.… Share to Mastodon plugin for WP
If you want a really simple way to boost a hashtag on Mastodon then there is a really simple way to do it! Just search for the hashtag on hashtag.place like this @hashtag ie. @3dcsocial… Automatically boost hashtag on Mastodon
