With today’s news of a new leadership team for Mastodon, I thought it would be a good time to take stock of the state of the open social web. I’m not new to this space, or an impartial observer: I ...

92% of organizations view open source networking as critical to their future infrastructure plans. Projects like SONiC enable hardware independence, helping organizations achieve up to 50% reduction ...

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure, announced at ...

Privacy, political, and ethical concerns are pushing people to look for alternative social media platforms. What are the options? Are they the solution? Euronews Tech Talks tries to understand.

Free Our Feeds, which includes support from the Mozilla Foundation, is working with Bluesky to make sure the open source social media landscape is robust — even if it means more competition for ...

Former President Trump’s new social network might be in hot water before it even launches. Mastodon, a free social media framework, alleges that Truth Social is passing open source software off as its ...

MEDLab recently concluded the Open Social Incubator, a 6-month long peer-learning program bringing together community builders from around the world united by a shared curiosity about open social ...

The Ethereum co-founder urged broader adoption of open social platforms, saying decentralized social media can improve online communication by restoring competition. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik ...