Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. Though the concept of the open social web, also known as the fediverse, has been picking up momentum ever since Meta last year introduced its first-ever federated app ...

The .af domain extension happens to be registered in Afghanistan. The .af domain extension happens to be registered in Afghanistan. Were you aware that the “.af” domain extension is administered by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, ...

The Taliban, which has been in control of Afghanistan since 2021, has shut down the LGBTQ-oriented “queer.af” Mastodon instance. The instance’s domain, “.af,” is administered by the Afghan government, ...

The Mastodon platform, 'queer.af,' encountered closure under the Taliban's administration of Afghanistan's ".af" top-level domain, signaling a significant shift following years of dormancy. This ...

Right, but they do have an open underlying protocol with the aim of having anyone latch on to the protocol and not being vendor/app-bound, no? And in a more streamlined format than Mastodon seem to ...

Pebble, a startup that took on Twitter and failed, has returned from the dead — as a Mastodon instance, it seems. The company announced last month that it was shutting down its Twitter/X alternative ...