Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means
Mark Zuckerberg made his first post in the “fediverse” on Thursday. If you have no idea what the hell that means, join the club. The fediverse is a relatively new…
14,000-Year-Old Tusk Shows Mammoth’s Path to an Ice Age Campsite
A female mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago made a trek across hundreds of miles of tundra to a hunter-gatherer settlement in central Alaska, according to a team of scientists…
So Far, Trump’s Truth Social Has Set $73 Million on Fire
Less than two years after it launched, Donald Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, might be headed for the internet graveyard. New federal filings show that Truth, like a lot…
People Want Threads to Be Old Twitter. Threads Would Prefer Not to.
When the Arab Spring unfolded just over ten years ago, Twitter played a pivotal role. The site was both a source for up-to-the-minute information and an organizing tool for protestors,…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Sparked an Exodus of Climate Voices, Researchers Find
Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. A…
Mastodon Has a Child Abuse Material Problem, Like Every Other Major Web Platform
A new report suggests that the lax content moderation policies of Mastodon and other decentralized social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Stanford’s Internet…
Don’t Count Bluesky Out Yet
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter late last year, things have gone from bad to worse at the microblogging site. Many users want out, and they’re hoping that there’s…
Bluesky Sees “Record” Web Traffic After Elon’s Latest Dumb Twitter Decision
Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout…
Meta, King of Copycats, Makes Power Play for Twitter Users With Instagram Spinoff
Gizmodo reached out to Meta for comment on The Verge’s report on Friday morning but did not receive a response by the time of publication. At the same all-hands meeting,…
How to use Mastodon: create your account, join servers, and more
Elon Musk’s shenanigans at Twitter are pushing a healthy bunch of users to an upstart named Mastodon. Here’s a basic Mastodon onboarding guide for the expats.