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Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has focused on improving Tumblr’s platform and growing its revenue. Now Automattic will shift Tumblr’s… Continue Reading →
Starting today, users of the social magazine app Flipboard can follow any federated accounts, “meaning those that participate in the social network of interconnected servers known as the fediverse,” writes TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez. “This now includes Threads accounts in addition… Continue Reading →
With the update, any Flipboard user can follow user profiles from any other federated service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Link to original post https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/flipboard-users-can-now-follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse-including-those-on-threads/ from Teknoids NewsRead the original story
Ahead of these potential competitors comes Openvibe, a simple aggregator for the open social web. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Link to original post https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/09/openvibe-combines-mastodon-bluesky-and-nostr-into-one-social-app/ from Teknoids NewsRead the original story
Over the past few days, Ghost says it has achieved two major milestones in its move to become a federated service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Link to original post https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/08/substack-rival-ghost-federates-its-first-newsletter/ from Teknoids NewsRead the… Continue Reading →
Instagram’s Twitter/X rival Threads is furthering its expansion into the fediverse — the interconnected social network that includes apps like Mastodon, PeerTube, and others running the ActivityPub protocol. On Tuesday, Meta announced that it’s now opening up its beta for… Continue Reading →
OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news site’s data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAI’s press relations site, the company said that the Reddit partnership will provide it access to “real-time,… Continue Reading →
In a Threads post today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Twitter rival is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. With the feature enabled, Threads users will be able to cross-post… Continue Reading →
Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging services, as required by the new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The company had earlier shared… Continue Reading →
Quora “used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions,” writes Slate. “But users are fleeing,” while the site hosts “a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical, straight-up hateful, and A.I.-generated… Continue Reading →