Flipboard’s new ‘social websites’ help publishers and creators tap into the open social web

Flipboard’s social websites consolidate profiles and posts from Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and RSS feeds into a single, shared destination.

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A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.

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Cameo partners with TikTok to boost popularity

Cameo launched a new TikTok integration that allows U.S. creators to offer personalized videos through the app.

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Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.

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Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

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Social gaming platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5B, is shutting down

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

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Meta starts testing a premium subscription on Instagram

Among the premium features on Instagram is the ability to view a Story without the poster seeing that you viewed it and the option to see how many people have rewatched your Story.

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Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance

More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.

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Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

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Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE

While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.

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