Social media used to be fun. You would get to see what your friends and family members have been up to. These days? These days it has become a game of chasing engagement and manipulating the algorithm ...

Longtime users of Instagram, the photo- and video-focused first cousin to Meta’s Facebook, know it isn’t what it used to be.

Instagram used to be a photographer's playground. Sadly, those days are long gone. The platform that once celebrated photography now treats our carefully composed images like an inconvenient ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. At a time when established social media platforms are facing criticism and turbulence — from TikTok's temporary shutdown to Meta's ...

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternative Mastodon, ...

There is a lot of change in the air of the social media world as TikTok prepares to go (potentially) dark, Mark Zuckerberg loosens content restrictions on Meta apps, and Elon Musk continues to toy ...

Pixelfed is a decentralized Instagram alternative that ties into the fediverse via the ActivityPub protocol. Following a beta test, Pixelfed has now widely released its official app on Android and iOS ...

Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...

In the world of mobile apps, it’s normal for companies to “inspire” each other, especially when a particular service is extremely popular. ByteDance’s TikTok already enjoys immense popularity on its ...