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Bluesky Bluesky account

Happy opening day of hockey season, NHL fans! Keep up with all 1,344 regular season games with this starter pack of hockey writers.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world. ⚡CodeForces organizes over 100 coding contests every year and has 4 million contestants signed up.🌱 Since 2010, I've supported Codeforces through the companies I started.🆙 But this year will be special. Its founder Mike wants to bring Codeforces to the next level — and we'll be happy to help him do that 🤝

Mastodon Mastodon account

Hannah Aubry is leaving Mastodon after her time with us as community director and board member. We’re very grateful for her contributions, ideas, and commitment to Mastodon and the fediverse. Thank you, Hannah! We wish you all the very best for what comes next.

Bluesky Bluesky account

If you're in line to vote for @bsky38.com, please stay in line! Polls close in just under 5 hours.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

💸 In just one month, Telegram has awarded over $2,222,000 to some of the brightest minds on our planet.🎨 This week alone we distributed $222,000 among the winners of our two latest competitions — the Design Contest and the Digital Freedom Contest.On top of that, over the past month we awarded prizes worth more than $2 million to the winners of the 2026 International Olympiads in Informatics and AI.We're proud to…

Mastodon Mastodon account

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/ #mastodon #mastodon5.0

Bluesky Bluesky account

Welcome to the ONLY event about Apple happening today, as far as we know. We'll be running this as an AMAAA (Ask Me Anything About Apples). Ask your biggest Apple questions in the replies to this post and one of our Apple Geniuses will be with you shortly. 🍎

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

🏳️ Gram Wallet in Telegram is ready and is now accessible to a select group of users.🤩 We'll be gradually rolling it out to our billion+ users over the next couple of weeks.⚡️ Thanks to the validators who approved the smart contract that powers it, future upgrades of the wallet won't require painful migrations.This is just one of the innovations we've built to make non-custodial wallets usable ✨

Mastodon Mastodon account

Here is a #FeaturedServer for 🌎 Earth, 🦎 Earthlings, and their ⚖️ Advocates... https://earth.law/about Earth.Law is for: 📜 Environmental lawyers & policy-makers 🦋 Conservationists & ecologists 🔬 Scientists in related fields 📚 Educators and students of environmental studies 🎤 Activists & advocates ♻️ Hosted on a dedicated server in 🇫🇮 Helsinki and recognised by the Green Web Foundation for using renewable…

Bluesky Bluesky account

Not to brag, but ... we snagged a couple of passes to today’s Apple event. Stay tuned for our take on all the latest and greatest Apple products.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

A high-school student just made $20,000 from a Telegram Gift.Jonathan He, an IOI gold medalist ranked #7 in the world, sold his Algorithm Cup — an NFT we gave to the top young coders this month — for 💎 15,000 Grams.Happy for him. It's a meaningful sum for someone still in school, and I suspect a small fraction of what he'll go on to build.20 years ago, $20K was enough for me to launch my first company. Within…

Mastodon Mastodon account

Our Community Director @haubles provided a "plain English" version too: https://hachyderm.io/@haubles/117083650941891878

Bluesky Bluesky account

Thread numbering is out of beta! Threaded posts are now automatically numbered, to help you follow along. Check out the automatic numbering on this thread to see it in action.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

🚨 Two years ago, I was detained in Paris by police for 3 days — the longest they can hold someone before charging them.In an unprecedented move, French authorities accused the head of a major platform of crimes committed by its users.That investigation is still ongoing, although it makes less sense with each passing year. Why?Because we now have extensive evidence that Telegram was neither worse than other popular…

Mastodon Mastodon account

Today we're sharing additional guidelines about our Trade Mark Policy based on community feedback that we received. The new guidelines, and more background about these changes, are available on our blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/ #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediDev #MastoDev #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Bluesky Bluesky account

v1.132 is live! Starter Packs are one of the best ways to find new people to follow—but how do you find the Starter Packs? As of today, look for them right in the main search box. You'll see the results under the Starter Packs tab.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

💎 Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone.If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains.🖥 For example, @durov would get durov.gram, and @monk would get monk.gram. Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — just by typing one prompt ✨

Mastodon Mastodon account

We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek! In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon. This week was tremendously helpful for us, and we're grateful to everyone who participated. Here's what we learned…

Bluesky Bluesky account

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

🏆 The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) ends today.🇷🇺Students from Moscow and St. Petersburg won 2🥇gold and 2🥈silver medals — well done, Vladislav Zhiganov (#2 overall!), Maksim Kravchenko, Sergei Mukhanov and Vladimir Zvezdin!🇺🇦Ukraine won 3 medals: 🥇 gold for Vladyslav Khalin, and 2🥈 silver for Illia Shevchenko and Daria Perekopska 💪🇧🇾 Belarus took 1🥇gold and 1🥈silver, won by Kiryl Kardash…

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RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116999079831534200 Have you taken the @iftas Social Web Operations Survey yet? 🧐 There's only one day left! #Fediverse #socialWeb #MastoAdmin

Bluesky Bluesky account

Big video update! You can now post videos up to 10 minutes long, and they'll upload 2–3x faster. That's on top of the recent increase in maximum file size to 300MB. We can’t wait to see what you’ll create! NOW PLAYING: "Rent Control," by @shing.bsky.social and @jayackley.bsky.social

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

1️⃣3️⃣ Telegram turns 13 today. For over half that time — the past 7,5 years — it's been one of the 10 most downloaded mobile apps in the world. A whole generation has grown up with it 💪🎂 Happy birthday, Telegram!

Mastodon Mastodon account

It's time for our first Server Spotlight! We want to help people find their communities across the #fediverse so we're featuring servers here on this account. First up: The Mended Drum, a home for fans of all things Sir Terry Pratchett. It is said that if you stay on The Mended Drum long enough, you'll meet every hero on the server: https://mendeddrum.org/directory (keep an eye on your horse, though 😉)…

Bluesky Bluesky account

First Bluesky user to judge the Great British Bake Off! 🍰

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

🇺🇿 The 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics starts today in Tashkent.🏆 The IOI is the ultimate coding competition for high-school students. Years ago, many members of the Telegram team won medals there. 🤝 To support the best young programmers in the world, Telegram will award the 235 winners exclusive digital collectibles — Algorithm Cups — worth at least $117,000 in total.🕌 It’s fitting that IOI is…

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RE: https://graz.social/@linos/116935715739512526 Congratulations @pfefferle and @activitypub.blog, and thank you @nlnet and @NGIZero for all the ways you support the #Fediverse and #SocialWeb 💝

Bluesky Bluesky account

We apologize for yesterday’s service problems. Bluesky experienced a DDoS attack—a flood of junk traffic meant to knock servers offline—over a period of 24 hours. We have upgraded our defenses in response, and we continue to monitor the situation. Follow @status.bsky.app for any updates.

Durov's Channel Telegram channel

🏆 The International Olympiad in AI finished yesterday in Astana.🇷🇺 The Russian team took first place in the team competition, and Artem Gorokhov from my home city won the individual event. Well done! 💪🇰🇿 I'm equally happy for the host country, Kazakhstan, whose Dauzhan Beketov took the second-highest individual score.👏📩We're in touch with the organizers to deliver the winners' prizes from Telegram…

Mastodon Mastodon account

By the way, did you know you can also subscribe to Mastodon feeds via RSS? I know, right!! Check out this helpful guide from @FediTips to learn how: https://fedi.tips/following-mastodon-and-fediverse-accounts-through-rss/