President Biden is now posting into the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Biden’s Threads posts can show up in Mastodon clients.
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Threads that the platform is beginning to test making Threads posts available on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-supporting services. Zuckerberg wrote that making Threads work with the interoperable standard “will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach...
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”. (www.theverge.com)
In other news, Reddit CEO confirms status as clueless ass-clown....
Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)
I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit’s platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website....
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’ (www.theverge.com)
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
Threads’ fediverse plans are coming together.
SpaceX is cleared to attempt its third Starship test flight (www.theverge.com)
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months (www.theverge.com)
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)
Paramount and Comcast are reportedly considering a streaming partnership (www.theverge.com)
I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy (www.theverge.com)
NASA’s Artemis mission to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
Warner Bros. Discovery just canned another nearly finished film (www.theverge.com)
YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures (www.theverge.com)
It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.
White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding (www.theverge.com)
States will receive at least $100 million
FTC sues Amazon for tricking customers into signing up for Prime (www.theverge.com)
The agency also claims Amazon made it difficult to unsubscribe.
