With today’s news of a new leadership team for Mastodon, I thought it would be a good time to take stock of the state of the open social web. I’m not new to this space, or an impartial observer: I ...

TikTok’s potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that could one day serve as a TikTok replacement for ...

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure, announced at ...