Halloween 2024 costumes embrace memes, DIY, and obscurity

All Hallow’s Eve is upon us, and who would have thought that this year’s biggest seasonal debate would be when exactly we should be celebrating Hallo-weekend?  Tweet may have been deleted While half of the country deals with the Halloween aftermath of last weekend and the other prepares for big plans at the end of…

Open-source TikTok alternative Loops coming to the fediverse

The fediverse is growing. Loops, an open-source TikTok clone, has started to accept sign ups, as first reported by TechCrunch. The short form, looping video platform will provide an open-source alternative to TikTok in the same way that Mastodon provides an alternative option for X, formerly Twitter. Loops was created by Daniel Supernault, the founder…

Elon Musk’s X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees

Elon Musk’s X appears to be adding yet another fee for third party apps, according to an affected app developer. After acquiring then-Twitter, Musk made big sweeping changes to the platform’s API, which allows third-party developers to integrate X into their platforms. The biggest change? Charging thousands of dollars just to access X’s API, which…

Meta suspends celebrity plane tracking accounts like ElonJet

ElonJet, the social media account that tracks Elon Musk’s jet, has been banned once again. But this time it’s not by Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter. The account has been banned there since December 2022. (The platform allows an alternative version of ElonJet which posts Musk’s jet’s travels on a 24-hour delay.) This time…