There have been multiple attempts to create a new social network that tries to mimic Twitter as a short-text-oriented real-time platform ever since Twitter (nee X) started to fray. Mastodon is the choice of the proponents of the Indie web; BlueSky, a network promoted by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and Warpcast, which has its roots in the decentralized …
TLDR: This is a smart move for Yahoo. It didn’t cost them much. I would say that this was cheaper than the “cheap and cheerful” category. Second, it gives Yahoo News a chance to modernize. ** “A lot of organizations care deeply about news and personalized content and I think they’re looking around and saying …