Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. The server, Mozilla.social, today connects users with the Mastodon social network, an open source rival to Twitter/X. It will be shut down on December 17.

Mastodon, the open source, decentralized social network offering an alternative to Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Threads, is rolling out a number of updates with Tuesday’s release of Mastodon 4.4.

The server, Mozilla.social, today connects users with the Mastodon social network, an open source rival to Twitter/X. It will be shut down on December 17." ...

Mastodon is arguably the best free and open-source social media platform, using the same shared (federated) network as Flipboard, Metaâ s Threads, and other platforms. Mastodon 4.3 is now rolling ...

After writing the above piece on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads, I’m exhausted just by the prospect of another social network. Yet a fledgling called Sez Us, for all its Twitter-mimicking ...

At a time when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have shown that the whims of one person can upend an entire social network, Mastodon’s CEO and creator, Eugen Rochko, is heading the opposite direction.