Sarah Perez

While the company's original app allowed users to collect content from blogs, news websites, and traditional social media services like Facebook and Twitter in order to create curated magazines, its new app called Surf, launching into invite-only beta today, will instead allow users to browse and explore the open social web. This includes services like Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as other public web content like blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more. To work, Surf supports open protocols like RSS, which provides feeds for updates from websites and podcasts, Bluesky's newer AT Protocol, and ActivityPub, which powers decentralized X competitor Mastodon, plus Pixelfed, PeerTube, Friendica, Ghost, and others, and is integrated with Meta's own X competitor, Instagram Threads.

The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 -- at least in terms of consumer spending. In 2024, global consumer

Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote posting the original post and then adding commentary, Threads users will instead be able to click a new option, “Use Media,” allowing them to just reshare the photo or video directly to a new post where they can add their own text. The image or video will still be credited to the original poster, however.

Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote posting the original post and then adding

Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote posting the original post and then adding commentary, Threads users will instead be able to click a new option, "Use Media," allowing them to just reshare the photo or video directly to a new post where they can add their own text. The image or video will still be credited to the original poster, however.

A new app called Tapestry promising to unify social media, news, and RSS in one place, is nearing completion. Designed by Iconfactory, the same team that