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A Beginner’s Guide to Mastodon

Buffer Social

Post-Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, interest in other social networking sites has spiked significantly. Some names may be familiar to you while others are completely new, but a quick search on Google Trends reveals that old or new, people are looking for the next, best microblogging platform.

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What does the future of decentralized social media mean for marketers?

Sprout Social

The fediverse, a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe,” is made up of decentralized social networks. It’s similar to the metaverse , but here’s the distinction: Instead of interconnected worlds fueled by augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), the fediverse consists of interoperable social networks.

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What is Bluesky Social? Everything Your Brand Needs To Know

Hootsuite

At this point, you’ve likely heard of Bluesky Social, the budding Twitter alternative. It’s one of a few text-based social networks that have cropped up as Twitter, now X , makes the shift to becoming an “everything app” under its new leader, Elon Musk. Bluesky is also an open-source platform. What is Bluesky?

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well. The person who tweeted at me last week about this was especially into open source for her own reasons, so all of the sudden, this meant that I should have given her a freebie. These new talents and voices of social networking would often speak for free affecting market integrity.

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Why Nobody Should Buy Digg ?» Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One friend was in Digg’s top 40 submitter list and was an extremely loyal and dedicated user. It is a proposal of an open system where everything is transparent and users themselves can vote on decisions. I think it is a great idea and I am in the midst of writing the open source code for it.

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