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Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers ( unseen-japan.com )

article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X...

Fediverse now well past 14 Million total users ( the-federation.info )

On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

Canvas.toast.ooo is the Lemmyverse r/place! Going on right now! ( canvas.toast.ooo )

Y'all come on over and drop some pixels!

Any Lemmy apps which allow swiping between posts? ( kbin.social )

I'm looking for an app which allows me to open a post and then just swipe to the left to see the next post down. So far I've tried Jerboa, Connect, and Sync and all seem to want to perform actions on whatever comment you happen to swipe on rather than move the entire post/thread.

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media ( www.bbc.co.uk )

"As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications...

Want to move on from Mastodon, but so confused on what platform to choose ( kbin.social )

Recently I've dove a little deeper into the Fediverse. I began with Mastodon like many others and I'm ready to move on. Mastodon as a software in comparison to similar services in the Fediverse like Calckey/Firefish, Friendica, Misskey, etc. just isn't as good and the only thing it has going for it is an established user base...

Child Safety on Federated Social Media ( purl.stanford.edu )

Not the best news in this report. We need to find ways to do more.

As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.