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Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky officially launches DMs (direct messages), the company was announced on Wednesday. Later, Bluesky plans to “fully support end-to-end encrypted…

Elon Musk’s X is set to make likes private on the social network, in a change that could leave users confused about the difference between something…

Reddit was announced on Wednesday that it is bringing back its rewards system after ending the program last year. The company said that most of the…

Bluesky and Mastodon’s social networks may soon be accessible through a single app — at least that’s what Bluesky hopes. The new decentralized social network, originally…

Meta’s transition to the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is confusing. Does Facebook’s owner see open protocols as the future? Will do embrace…

Over the weekend, another social media platform exploded into the fray: AirChat. The app is like a combination of Twitter and Clubhouse. Instead of typing a…

Flipboard, a Web 2.0-era social magazine app reinventing itself to capitalize on the renewed push toward an open social web, is deepening its ties to fediverse,…

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Threads. Mastodon. Blue sky. Substack notes. Position. Nostr. Weak. There’s been no shortage of X competitors in the months since Elon Musk acquired the text-based social…

After opening its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta’s Twitter/X competitor Threads is now introducing developer documentation and one registration form for…