Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko steps down from the decentralized social network as part of its transition to a nonprofit structure governed by a board
Mastodon's creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival …
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko plans to transfer Mastodon's ownership to a new non-profit, saying “Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual”
Mastodon says the decentralized network ‘should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.’
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says Meta's moderation changes are “deeply troubling”, and Mastodon will take action on Threads accounts violating Mastodon's policies
Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is bending the knee … Wall Street Journal : Sources: Zuckerberg demanded a review of an algorithm change after his 2023 knee surgery Facebook post got anemic ...
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; users won't see fediverse posts in feeds, but will on account profiles
However, I believe that interoperability is necessary for survival of all of these platforms. … Eugen Rochko / @Gargron@mastodon.social : @mosseri just announced that #Threads users can finally follow...
Newsletter service Ghost says it plans to add ActivityPub support in 2024; rival service Buttondown also plans ActivityPub support
Newsletter Platform Ghost Adopts ActivityPub Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Look out Substack, Ghost will join the fediverse this year Karissa Bell / Engadget : Newsletter service Ghost will support the ...
Attackers have been signing up spam accounts on smaller Mastodon servers over the past several days; Eugen Rochko said previously only big servers were targeted
Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the platform, its future, collaborating on ActivityPub with Meta's Threads team, why Bluesky should ditch AT, and more
because they get to control their entire IT infrastructure, and we get to see and subscribe to these important announcements.” … Bluesky: @t1u.bsky.social : Would Bluesky developers really just say “o...
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability
including by trying every obvious solution out there— on several occasions. If the problem were easy to solve, it would have been solved by now. The reason we bring up the problem in a public forum ...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interesting again. Brian Penny...
Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Eugen Rochk...