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A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

3 months 2 weeks ago

Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction Twitter would take, millions of users hopped over to Mastodon, a fellow microblogging site. As time […]

Amanda Silberling

Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works

3 months 2 weeks ago

Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.   What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued […]

Theresa Loconsolo

Poor Sleep Quality Accelerates Brain Aging

3 months 2 weeks ago

Research shows that people who sleep poorly tend to have brain age that is older than their actual age. Chronic inflammation in the body caused by poor sleep likely plays a part.

Ritsuko Kawai