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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

January 15, 2025

X says it is rolling out labels for parody accounts

January 10, 2025

Elon Musk-owned social network X said today that it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from other...

Bluesky adds mentions tab in the notifications screen and username squatting protection

December 20, 2024

Social network Bluesky has released a new update to its app that includes a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting,...

Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads

November 19, 2024

Bluesky, the social network and X competitor has been benefiting from a surge of departures from the Elon Musk-owned app formerly known as...

Cross-posting social app Openvibe now supports Threads, too

November 2, 2024

The decline of X (formerly Twitter) under Elon Musk has boosted engagement with alternative social networks like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon, but it...

As TikTok ban heads to court, ByteDance’s Lemon8 surges

September 16, 2024

As TikTok heads to court on Monday to argue against a U.S. ban, parent company ByteDance’s newer social app, Lemon8, is once again...

Yelp’s lack of transparency around API charges angers developers

August 4, 2024

On July 19, Yelp informed select indie developers that they would have to switch to paid accounts, due to high API usage....