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4 votes
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Two popular Danish television presenters have reported Meta to the police after finding their images and words had been manipulated and misused in thousands of Facebook ads
29 votes -
Twitter replaces twitter.com with x.com without user consent. Bad implementation invites an influx of Phishing attacks. (german source)
48 votes -
Instagram generated almost 30% of Meta’s revenue in early 2022
27 votes -
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
62 votes -
Fedi Garden to instance admins: “Block Threads to remain listed”
23 votes -
The rise and fall of the trad wife: Alena Kate Pettitt helped lead an online movement promoting domesticity. Now she says, “It’s become its own monster.”
39 votes -
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
28 votes -
The influencer who “reverses” Lupus with smoothies. Psychiatrist Brooke Goldner makes extraordinary claims about incurable diseases. It’s brought her a mansion, a Ferrari, and a huge social following.
18 votes -
You don't need to document everything
31 votes -
Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far
30 votes -
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
22 votes -
Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media
40 votes -
Reddit pops as much as 70% in NYSE debut after selling shares at top of range
37 votes -
US judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter
47 votes -
Elon Musk on racism, bailing out Donald Trump, hate speech, and more - The Don Lemon Show (full interview)
29 votes -
Time to delete your Glassdoor account and data
102 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
The end of the MrBeast era
39 votes -
Refund fraud schemes promoted on TikTok, Telegram are costing Amazon and other retailers billions of dollars
37 votes -
An influential economics forum has a troubling surplus of trolls
18 votes -
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
What I did when my art got stolen (I got help from lawyers and posted on social media)
17 votes -
YouTube blocks access to CBC's The Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's demand
50 votes -
Can Reddit survive its own IPO?
22 votes -
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
15 votes -
Trolls targeted TikTok librarian Mychal Threets. Now he’s quitting to rediscover his library joy.
31 votes -
Reddit is letting power users in on its IPO
38 votes -
The life-ruining power of routines: Habits don’t lead to personal optimisation. They lead to suffering.
32 votes -
The mystery social media account schooling US Congress on how to do its job
39 votes -
With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media helps wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight
16 votes -
Notes on conciseness
30 votes -
Generative AI - We aren’t ready
27 votes -
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads down in widespread outage
14 votes -
Is an ethical social media platform even possible?
I've long been uncomfortable using platforms that have a bad reputation with respect to: Human rights / genocide Disinformation Privacy All three of those can be connected with advertising...
I've long been uncomfortable using platforms that have a bad reputation with respect to:
- Human rights / genocide
- Disinformation
- Privacy
All three of those can be connected with advertising revenue, among other things. When I use platforms that are shady in this regard, I know I'm colluding with them and contributing to the problems they create. So it's been a relief to see new platforms like Tildes emerge, as well as those based on ActivityPub.
But even platforms that don't have overt advertising (Telegram?) do have a problem with hate groups that go unchallenged. And I know that if I was running an instance of an ActivityPub compatible platform such as KBin, I mightn't be able to keep on top of moderating things like disinformation.
So I suppose my question is, where do you draw the line? I've deleted my Twitter and Meta accounts and I'm exploring alternatives, but I'm not sure if I'm going from the darkness to the light, or just into shades of grey.
38 votes -
Tumblr to begin selling user content to AI generative service companies, opt-out will be per blog
75 votes -
Texas is right. The tech giants need to be regulated.
10 votes -
Matt Levine's Money Stuff: Reddit plans to allow users to buy IPO shares, Nvidia share purchases and Three Arrows Capital [a collapsed crypto company]
19 votes -
Donald Trump trials - Georgia defendant Kenneth Chesebro caught lying to Michigan prosecutors about alt Twitter account
21 votes -
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
23 votes -
Bluesky announces data federation for self-hosting
20 votes -
Booktok and the hotgirlification of reading
19 votes -
Exhausted Pakistani content moderators are now trying to find other work but have been unsuccessful because their experience isn’t transferable
12 votes -
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
67 votes -
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
50 votes -
Does anyone else have posting anxiety?
To preface, I have accounts on multiple link aggregators, three microblogging platforms, and I have my own (transiently online) blog. I'm a member of more niche Discord servers than I can count,...
To preface, I have accounts on multiple link aggregators, three microblogging platforms, and I have my own (transiently online) blog. I'm a member of more niche Discord servers than I can count, and I'm in a few other nooks where people generally seem to gather and talk. Despite all that, I find that it's incredibly rare that I ever actually participate in any of the discussions that I see taking place, and that's something that I think I'd like to change.
I think part of the problem is that I grew up in the formative years of the "modern" net, and was always taught that you should be careful about what you say online (and, implicitly, that saying nothing is probably even better), lest an axe murderer track you down and explodify your tibia while you sleep.
So, does anyone else, or have stories about, posting anxiety? Anyone gotten over it? Am I just crazy?
81 votes -
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
14 votes -
Twitter/X provides premium perks to Hezbollah, other US-sanctioned groups
18 votes -
Does your Irish child speak with an American accent? The change may not last forever, linguistic expert says.
16 votes