Meta’s new app ‘Threads’ acts as a run-of-the-mill social media app but in the future will run in the 'fediverse’ The term "fediverse" is derived from the combination of "federation" and "universe" ...

A new concept with old roots has started to come to the fore on the Internet: federation. Instead of a centralized system, typically run as the equivalent of a single giant database by a company with ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new.

“Fediverse” is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean? The word comes from “federation” and “universe” being smooshed together, and it refers to a group of ...

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 ...

Ghost, an open source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps ...

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was ...

The social publishing and reading app Flipboard is embracing interoperability with the fediverse. The fediverse, a system of decentralized social networking services that includes Mastodon and video ...

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, ...

The post-Twitter world is fractured among a handful of potential alternate social networks—which is exciting, but also annoying. Things got slightly more integrated last week. That's because Threads, ...