Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps

There are so many peer-to-peer networks now in existence that I have seriously lost count of them. You may think that they just come and go, but that is because they are not really visible outside of their own network. Secure Scuttlebutt, where I ju ...continues

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Bitsocial Is An Open Source P2P Network For Social Apps

There are so many peer-to-peer networks now in existence that I have seriously lost count of them. You may think that they just come and go, but that is

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Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-c19d2720-7a63b2a346745bb8

The EFF is quitting X

“Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.”

I don’t think many legacy corporations have re ...continues

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The EFF Is Quitting X

“Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a

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Lifehacker: Reddit Is (Mostly) Shuttering r/all, but There’s Still a Way to Access It. “As reported by The Verge, Reddit is officially doing away with r/all. This decision didn’t come out of the blue, though. The company had announced its plans to remove r/all in December, before doing so in January (though it called this an ‘experiment’). It also removed r/all from users accessing the site […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/lifehacker-reddit-is-mostly-shuttering-r-all-but-theres-still-a-way-to-access-it/

Britons social media use declines, but not because they now write blogs

Data compiled by Ofcom, being the Office of Communications, Britain's communications regulator, says 49% of adult social media users now post content, compared to 61% in 2024. The slow down in publishing content cannot, however, be attributed to an IndieWeb/SmallWeb led switch-over to personal websites or blogs. Unfortunately. Rather, British social media users are concerned old, long forgotten, posts may surface in the future, potentially causing embarrassment, or hamper […]

https://disassociated.com/britons-social-media-use-declines-not-because-blogs/

Britons social media use declines, but not because they now write blogs

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Reddit is moving on from r/all

Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, but you can still access it if you use old Reddit.

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Reddit Pro opens to all publishers, adds new features in public beta

Publishers can now access Reddit’s Pro tools free, with RSS posting, AI community targeting, and analytics showing where content spreads.

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Pinterest launches a new feature to promote a Pin | TechCrunch

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