#Mastodon 4.2 is rolling out across the social web! On our quest to make Mastodon more delightful and easy to use, we've overhauled search, sign-ups, cross-server interactions and a whole lot more:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

Tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are battling, but not in the way that some might hope (we're still waiting to hear about that cage fight.) The BBC asks analysts whether Meta's Threads actually has a chance at being more successful as a business than Twitter, or if this is just a "flash in the pan" moment.

https://flip.it/DzMYpE

#Twitter #ThreadsApp #Meta

The Fediverse is a network of thousands of independent social media servers of many different kinds.

The most popular kind is Mastodon, but it wasn't the first and isn't the only one. Some of the accounts you interact with are on other server types, e.g. @Iancylkowski is on Pixelfed and @theatticdwellers is on PeerTube. There are many Fediverse server types:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-other-kinds-of-servers-are-on-the-fediverse/

Whichever type you're signed up on, they connect together to form a social network called the Fediverse.

Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.

Mastodon: You actually don't need a billionaire at all.

Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that's true.