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Mastodon, the decentralized network viewed as a viable alternative to Twitter, is rife with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a new study from Stanford’s Internet Observatory (via The Washington Post). In just two days,…

Social media giant Meta launched Threads on Instagram earlier this month. The company’s Twitterrival platform scooped up 100 million subscribers in the first five days of its release. Now, the company is reportedly planning to add another…

Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta's freshly minted app Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk's raucous oversight…

Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired…

Instagram's Threads is now live on iPhone, Android smartphones and on the web. It is a separate app from Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagrambut users however can sign in using their Instagram accounts.The Meta-owned social media platform is…

Mastodon. Post. Spill. Hive. Bluesky on the periphery. Many have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to be an alternate outlet for the masses as Twitter regularly (to the extent of being volatile) changed course with content and moderation…

Bluesky, another Twitter rival in the offing, backed by former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, has recently received additional funding and is introducing its first paid service. The company announced in a blog post that it raised…

Decentralised social media platform Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has said that Meta's new microblogging platform Threads intends to become part of the decentralised social web by using the same standard 'ActivityPub' protocol as Mastodon.In a…

Mastodon is seeing record growth. (Image: Reuters)Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has said that the number of active users across the decentralised social media platform "rose" by 2,94,000 over the weekend. Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko…

A simple app vs app competition could snowball into one of the most 'epic fights' wherein two 'tech bros' may take on each in a cage or the colosseum. Call it Twitter vs Threads, or Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg, it's the same thing.…