These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.

X will now let you 'react with video' to posts.

In its latest update, Bluesky is getting into long-form content.

Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.

The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.

X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later tool.

Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.

Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.

Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.

The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer.

The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method scammers used to contact consumers.

Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta apps and devices.

X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.

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

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.

Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.

The EFF follows the departure of various news organizations and others who no longer find X a viable source of traffic.