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9 votes
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Elon Musk becomes Twitter’s largest shareholder
16 votes -
Move fast and break things
6 votes -
Does anyone else feel like Tildes gets less effective at surfacing new stuff the longer you're on it?
I notice this primarily with the YouTube videos. I've started to notice that the videos I see posted in here I have already had recommended to me by YouTube. And I realize it must be because when...
I notice this primarily with the YouTube videos. I've started to notice that the videos I see posted in here I have already had recommended to me by YouTube. And I realize it must be because when I watch a video here, the YouTube algorithm decides I'm interested in that kind of thing. So, functionally, by posting and interacting with content in Tildes we are tuning the various algorithmic recommendation feeds that we interact with to view us all similarly.
It's just an interesting side effect I noticed and some food for thought about the effectiveness of a link aggregator or discussion forum at surfacing novel, interesting content we might not find otherwise. In part, this could just be an effect of Tildes being kind of small and having lots of self-selection biases for its user population. Perhaps if it was more diverse we'd be exposed to more things that break the mold and recommendation algorithms won't be able to pin it all down as easily. In fact, we may be able to use this effect as a way to test the breadth and diversity of content and types of people a site is attracting.
11 votes -
Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
Let’s please not make “the slap” more than what it is
17 votes -
The Ant Mill theory of discourse
7 votes -
YouTube to stream 4000+ episodes of television for free to US viewers
8 votes -
YouTube Vanced is discontinued
@Vanced Official: Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it's something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.
25 votes -
AroundMeBD’s extravagant and oddly satisfying videos have created a lucrative cooking empire
6 votes -
How TikTok's design helps turn ordinary people into villains
10 votes -
The twitches that spread on social media
10 votes -
Facebook, Google and other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law
3 votes -
My 90's TV!
14 votes -
The metaverse is so stupid
17 votes -
Google search is dying: Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
41 votes -
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes -
Oscars: Twitter’s top fan-voted film will be recognized during broadcast
7 votes -
Reddit announces update to user blocking: Blocked users will no longer be able to see or interact with your content on the platform
16 votes -
Facebook alternatives
We have 2 boys, one of which is 4 months old and my wife is looking for new ways to share updates with friends and family. She doesn't want pictures publicly available anymore but still wants to...
We have 2 boys, one of which is 4 months old and my wife is looking for new ways to share updates with friends and family. She doesn't want pictures publicly available anymore but still wants to cast a wide net to many different people. I think she's open to a newsletter of some sort that would allow people to opt in or unsubscribe.
What's the best way to manage a newsletter like this? I want her effort to be the same as Facebook. She can add photos and text to a "post" all from her iPhone and then it gets emailed to everyone that we've added to a list.
Any ideas or suggestions?
15 votes -
Popular subreddit r/antiwork goes private after Fox interview
Many of you might be familiar with the popular and massively growing antiwork/work reform movement that found a home in the r/antiwork subreddit. Well, recently, the founder of the subreddit was...
Many of you might be familiar with the popular and massively growing antiwork/work reform movement that found a home in the r/antiwork subreddit. Well, recently, the founder of the subreddit was invited on Fox news for an interview and
it went about as well as you could expect(We shouldn't support r/Cringetopia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMncSub is now private, an offshoot called /r/WorkReform has been launched and everyone hates the old mods now.
41 votes -
Life of Reddit Enhancement Suite
23 votes -
An open source AI assistant + social network of decision makers to help people make better decisions
2 votes -
The American circus is in decline, but performers thrive on TikTok. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey may be no more, but aerialists and fire-eaters are just a click away.
6 votes -
Two-thirds of anti-vax propaganda online created by just twelve influencers, research finds
23 votes -
Finland's former interior minister Päivi Räsänen has gone on trial in Helsinki accused of inciting anti-LGBT+ hate speech
4 votes -
How do you feel about social media archiving tools such as Pushshift?
On and off throughout the years, I have attempted to make my online footprint as small as possible, taking steps such as: using pseudonyms on social media creating a new account every year or so...
On and off throughout the years, I have attempted to make my online footprint as small as possible, taking steps such as:
- using pseudonyms on social media
- creating a new account every year or so
- overwriting old posts with a new message blanking out my original post
- "deleting" posts after a few days if the account has a higher probability to be tied to my real life
The last point, I put quotations around deleted because I understand that once I post something, it is not ever really deleted but it adds a barrier of entry to trying to dig into my personal life. Pushshift comes up because, try as I might, I seem to have difficulty getting accounts removed from their searches. Additionally, I think they allow you to download reddit data in bulk so even if I were able to get my name removed from the search results, the data could still exist on someone's hard drive, somewhere.
From your perspective, are services like Pushshift, that archive people's information without their explicit knowledge, ethical? On the one hand, I think of detestable content that users might post then delete later to avoid accountability. On the other hand, I think of people like me who want to keep their data footprint as small as possible because of the crazies who might utilize this information to do harm.
8 votes -
Corporate "MLK" tweets listed next to their donations to GOP voter suppression efforts
@Judd Legum: 1. This will be a thread of corporations that are "honoring" MLK Jr on Twitter today but donated to the @NRSC in the last year, supporting a caucus that is filibustering voting rights and a chair (@SenRickScott) who voted to overturn the last electionFollow along if interested
23 votes -
Reddit allows hate speech to flourish in its global forums, moderators say
31 votes -
Reddit is preparing to launch "Community Points" sitewide, allowing any subreddit to add a custom token to their community
5 votes -
Fediverse in 2021 (The fediverse is a network of open source social media platforms)
7 votes -
The manager of this Japanese second-hand shop covers famous songs using broken instruments
5 votes -
Map drawn from memory helps man reunite with family decades after abduction
4 votes -
Classic social networking in 2022: SpaceHey
12 votes -
What is the future for vaccines; and trust?
4 votes -
Walking away from Omelas - Lindsay Ellis says goodbye
33 votes -
Jack Dorsey says shutting down Twitter API was the “worst thing we did”
6 votes -
Inside the online movement to end work
12 votes -
I got permanently suspended from Reddit today. Now I know what Reddit has become.
My account was permanently suspended saying I had violated TOS multiple times, not only is this wrong, my previous suspension was unfair too, but I didn't appeal because it was only 1 week long...
My account was permanently suspended saying I had violated TOS multiple times, not only is this wrong, my previous suspension was unfair too, but I didn't appeal because it was only 1 week long and I know the state of reddit moderation, I just let it go, now this is getting out of hand, what is wrong? How can an account with so much contribution be suspended unfairly without any valid reason? Something needs to be done, if this continues, it's a matter of time for Reddit to become Facebook, mark my words. Peace ☮️.
6 votes -
Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire and retain talent
12 votes -
How Beijing influences the influencers
5 votes -
Here’s how to prevent (and recover from) a Facebook hack
5 votes -
Reddit confidentially files to go public
28 votes -
Norway's data privacy watchdog fines Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users' consent
7 votes -
Twitter, the intimacy machine
7 votes -
Roblox pressured us to delete our video, so we dug deeper
16 votes -
People are blasting Chanel's $825 Advent calendar on TikTok
6 votes -
We lied to you and we'll do it again
11 votes -
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
13 votes -
YouTube will no longer publicly display the dislike count on videos
32 votes