Yoel Roth shares concerns about the open social web's ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content.

Mastodon, the open source, decentralized social network offering an alternative to Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Threads, is rolling out a number of updates with Tuesday’s release of Mastodon 4.4.

As long as centralized entities like X and Meta continue to restrict freedom of expression with their algorithms, decentralized social media platforms such as Next Sosyal will attract growing interest ...

"The existence of platforms such as Rumble, Mastodon, Substack, Truth Social, and Bluesky," she writes, "demonstrates that users have choices in moderation environments." ...