April 29, 2025, CAMBRIDGE – The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the open-sourcing of Frankly, a groundbreaking ...

open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media ...

Bluesky, the open-source social media platform with a growing user base of over 27 million, has unveiled Flashes, a new photo and video-sharing app. Flashes, developed independently but powered by ...

Every time I think social media is done evolving ... But Bluesky has arrived, offering something different -- an open-source, decentralized network that puts control back into users' hands.

She began collating papers that other group members mentioned and wrote an overview of existing open-source social-media protocols. She told me, “The way that you become a leader is you just add ...