Notices by Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)

@Gargron @bart @pxl definitely built on top of it! not sure what they might have changed

@Gargron great point! would love to see them engage with that more directly

There's yet another open letter from the AI safety crowd. If they want more people to take them seriously, they need to get more specific

https://www.platformer.news/tuesday-newsletter/

Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing Mastodon founder @Gargron on the state of the platform and its relationship with Meta. He says he thinks two-way federation between Threads and Mastodon is coming this summer https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

@mastodonmigration @TechDesk My preference is for a site with a vibrant and growing ecosystem, and an innovative product. Mastodon is designed to be a niche, and that's fine if that's what it wants to be. I'd note that I still actually post here and read my replies, unlike 99 percent of my peers in the US tech press

NEW: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network that will support ActivityPub. The company confirmed that it is in the early stages of the project to Platformer exclusively

https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized

This is completely false. We stand by our reporting

Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system