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 ...

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 ...

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development. In ...