The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as ...

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A key aspect of the fediverse is that each server is governed by rules set by the people who operate it. If you think of the fediverse ...

Mastodon is making changes in the hopes of making its social networking service more appealing and easier to use, especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads. On ...

Mastodon, the federated social network built on ActivityPub, is taking cues from Bluesky and introducing its own version of the social platform's "Starter Packs." The hope is that Mastodon's "Packs" ...

Imani Joy, Mastodon’s head of design, writes in the announcement that Collections won’t have a “Follow All” button to start. ...