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One day after Instagram engineer Peter Cottle previewed what it would look like for Threads users to post to the fediverse, the company has begun rolling out the beta to users in the U.S., Canada and ...

Meta is continuing its slow march toward compatibility with the fediverse. The company has been experimenting with making posts from a handful of accounts available on Mastodon since the end of last ...

Meta's Threads is inching closer to compatibility with the fediverse -- an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub. A video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday ...

Threads just got a little closer to services like Mastodon. The post-Twitter world is fractured among a handful of potential alternate social networks—which is exciting, but also annoying. Things got ...

The story so far: Meta, the parent company for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, recently launched its Twitter, now X, rival Threads. Currently available as a standalone app, but can only be used ...

Threads is going deeper into the fediverse, the interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub that includes apps such as Mastodon and BookWyrm. Instagram head ...

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t searchable and their posts won’t show in feeds. You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t ...

The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — got another boost of legitimacy Tuesday as the @Potus (President of the United States) ...

There are times in which it seems oh-so-obvious that tech bros love science-fiction movies. They're obsessed with a vaguely utopian ideal that has no chance in hell of panning out in real life. Or, ...

Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting ...