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Key Takeaways: Curated Discovery Arrives: Mastodon is launching “Collections,” a new feature enabling users to create and share lists of up to 25 accounts, designed to significantly improve content and account discovery across the decentralized fediverse. Lessons Learned from Bluesky: Drawing inspiration from Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” Mastodon has deliberately excluded a “Follow All” button…

Bluesky has unveiled an artificial intelligence assistant named Attie, which empowers users to craft their personalized social media algorithms and generate bespoke content streams within the company’s AT Protocol framework. And it’s safe to say the reaction has been intense. Bluesky’s community, largely averse to AI technology, failed to welcome the fresh offering, which debuted this weekend at…

The Berlin-based startup Periwinkle is offering a new avenue for those wanting to leave centralized social media operated by Big Tech companies. Instead of joining a decentralized, open social networking app like Mastodon or Bluesky, Periwinkle allows anyone to set up a social media account on their own domain, under their own control. Built on top of the AT Protocol, the same open source…

Here’s something that you’ve never seen on Big Tech social platforms: the decentralized open social network Bluesky has integrated new technology from a startup called Germ Network in order to bring end-to-end encrypted (E2E) messaging to the Bluesky app. The move makes Germ DM the first private messenger that can be launched natively within the Bluesky app. Alongside the launch, Germ is also…