Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

Mastodon wants to encourage people to transition to the open social web. Mastodon wants to encourage people to transition to the open social web. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, ...

Decentralized open source social network Mastodon is rolling out its latest release, version 4.5, which brings support for Quote Posts to all server operators, along with other features for admins, ...

Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. Though the concept of the open social web, also known as the fediverse, has been picking up momentum ever since Meta last year introduced its first-ever federated app ...

Mastodon says the decentralized network ‘should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.’ Mastodon says the decentralized network ‘should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.’ ...

Mastodon 4.6 adds email newsletters for creators, Collections for profile discovery, and redesigned profiles, all aimed at growing beyond 735K MAU. Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving ...

Eugen Rochko, CEO of the decentralized social networking platform Mastodon, is handing over control to a nonprofit organization. In other words, Rochko is voluntarily handing over the reins of the ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

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. In ...

Mastodon, the federated social network built on ActivityPub, is taking cues from Bluesky and introducing its own version of the social platform's "Starter Packs." The hope is that Mastodon's "Packs" ...

OpenVibe puts the post-Twitter social web into a single timeline. Replacing X is an ongoing project. Bluesky is currently the network growing the fastest, but both Threads and Mastodon have had growth ...