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 ...

Deloitte’s 2026 Digital Media Trends survey found that 52% of self-identified “fans” (people who follow a show, artist, franchise, etc.) say social media is the main way they discover new TV shows, ...

A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which describes interconnected social networking services powered by the ...

Should everyone have social media? Social Media has been a form of communication, networking and marketing for years and has only inreased it’s popularity.The question comes from users who may not ...

What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online, a digital gathering place where we can consume content posted by our friends? That’s certainly ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Idealist nerds have a long history of giving terribly confusing names to potentially revolutionary technology. So it ...

Nicola Gunby, a 30-year-old entrepreneur, longed for a community of friends when she moved to London after the pandemic, but was shocked to find herself isolated in one of the biggest cities in the ...

Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco For years, Alyssa Landguth, ...

Longstanding concerns exist about excessive social media use causing mental health problems. The best evidence for this view comes from longitudinal studies showing that earlier social media use leads ...