{"id":22274,"date":"2023-03-10T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=22274"},"modified":"2023-03-10T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T02:50:25","slug":"meta-explores-decentralized-social-network-app-for-text-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2023\/03\/10\/meta-explores-decentralized-social-network-app-for-text-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta explores decentralized social network app for text updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc\u00a0is exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates, a company spokesperson said on Friday, in what could be a direct competitor to billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe there&#8217;s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests,&#8221; a Meta spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Indian business news website Moneycontrol.com\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/business\/startup\/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">first reported the news<\/a>, citing sources. The report said Meta&#8217;s new content app would support ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers Twitter-rival Mastodon and other federated apps.<\/p>\n<p>While Twitter and Facebook are controlled by one authority &#8211; a company &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/mastodon-what-is-social-network-hailed-twitter-alternative-2022-11-07\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">decentralized platforms<\/a>\u00a0such as Mastodon are installed on thousands of computer servers, largely run by volunteer administrators who join their systems together in a federation.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s new app would be Instagram-branded and will allow users to register or login through their Instagram credentials, according to the Moneycontrol report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc\u00a0is exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates, a company spokesperson said on Friday, in what could be a direct competitor to billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter Inc. &#8220;We&#8217;re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe there&#8217;s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22276,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22274\/revisions\/22276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}