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9 votes
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Google threatened tech influencers unless they 'preferred' the Pixel
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US FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October
52 votes -
Digital apartheid in Gaza: Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit
14 votes -
Viral hot sauce challenges have fueled a $100 million chile pepper arms race
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Imane Khelif brings lawsuit against x for "acts of aggravated cyber harassment”
43 votes -
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies at 56
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Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission]
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Been considering cutting down on YouTube
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really...
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really just wasting time doing nothing, just scrolling.
So I want to cut it off but I want to fill in that time with something else.
Anyone else has tried to cut off YT(Or at least minimize) YT from their life? I’m probably using YT the wrong way.
I would like some RSS feeds or podcast to make me go on YT less. Or thoughts/opinions/experiences from other people that used to have YT on almost all the time but minimized the time on YT.31 votes -
Front Porch Forum is the friendliest social network you’ve never heard of
46 votes -
Another post about bulk deleting content from Reddit
Is there a utility that will bulk delete threads and comments I made, but from 1 subreddit only? Thanks for any clues.
16 votes -
Local Canadian news loses 58% of online engagement, thanks to the Online News Act
33 votes -
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
61 votes -
YouTube without a working ad blocker
I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box. No more. The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials. The...
I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box.
No more.
The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials.
The commercials are obnoxious.
I think I will quit until the ad blocker I use updates again with a fix.
Sorry YouTube, you are far from being worth $14.00 USD a month.
Edit:
Mint Linux 21.2
Cinnamon 5.8
Firefox 128.0.3
Ublock Origin 1.59.0
- I completely removed UBlock Origin
- I completely emptied my Firefox cache and other data
- I signed out of Google completely
- I reinstalled UBlock Origin
- I signed back into Google
- I tried using YouTube with my VPN turned on.
No joy.
I can watch YouTube ad free via a private window in Firefox.
I can watch YouTube ad free if I log out of my Google/YouTube account
My add blocker works in other browsers when I am not logged into my Google/YouTube account.
49 votes -
I worked for Mr Beast, he's a sociopath
46 votes -
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
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Elon Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’
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The far right has moved online, where its voice is more dangerous than ever
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Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site
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Loblaw says financial impact of May boycott 'minor', as sales grow and profit slips
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I worked for Mr. Beast, he’s a fraud
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"Tildes as community radio" examples of hybrid social media?
I have for the last few years been preoccupied with creating a kind of audio-based social media, a call-in radio-show if you will without any call-screening, and the occasional piece of music to...
I have for the last few years been preoccupied with creating a kind of audio-based social media, a call-in radio-show if you will without any call-screening, and the occasional piece of music to rest the ears after too many words. By now this has resulted in a pretty solid community of dedicated listeners capable of discussing a wide range of topics and so far no heckling or trolling even though we never had a call-screener. Two listeners even met through the show and are now dating <3 <4
The relative success of this radio format has made me ponder how a community comparable to tildes would behave if it had an audio or podcast layer to it. Like a spoken forum/Reddit thread with moderators arranging audio messages from users/listeners into threads that make up rotating topical sections in an ongoing audio transmission. If you could listen to a curated spoken feed of tildes. A community-based audio forum live radio social media hybrid.
Drop some references if you know of any media experiments it might be worth for me to know about while I brainstorm with myself!
One example I know of is the US-based 100% listener-sponsored radio station WFMU. Full weekly schedule, absolutely unrelenting top programming by hosts who have full autonomy to explore their broad musical interests. There is never this modern smarmyness of some podcasts hosts. No ads. Fully listener sponsored. Your attention is taken for granted. Nobody's trying to get you hooked. Your attention is rewarded. They have a written chat-roll during most broadcasts the host will sometimes include into their speak, but not often. It's freeform radio with a digital layer as an add-on. It's fantastic for what it is. https://wfmu.org
Do you know of any experimental/hybrid social media where the users/listeners provide the spoken input in the style of call-in radio? Please drop some references, books, anything that connects to experiences gleaned from this type of experiment. Also interested in your ideas for how to make this work in real life.
It's not supposed to be the best and most streamlined brains-off entertainment ever. Just a stab at a technologically modern and democratic way of enabling discourse and the identification that seems a unique feature of audio-based media. When you can't see the person talking, it's a pseudonymous stranger ... you fill in the blanks with projections, guesses about the person. Always loved this kind of interaction. Which is why I'm here on tildes too!
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Doomscrolling evokes existential anxiety and fosters pessimism about human nature? Evidence from Iran and the United States.
22 votes -
How the news broke on X. The epistemology of an assassination attempt.
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Google now only search engine allowed to provide results from Reddit
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Reddit won't allow me to delete my comments
I have, despite my better judgement, gone back on reddit in a limited way after exiting completely for a few months. I decided to anonymize myself as much as possible and was using Redact to cover...
I have, despite my better judgement, gone back on reddit in a limited way after exiting completely for a few months. I decided to anonymize myself as much as possible and was using Redact to cover my history. It overwrites comments with random words plus a short message that the comment has been anonymized and deleted with Redact. It's been working great for quite a few months.
Today I logged on for the first time in a few days and my comments have ALL been restored, right back to when I opened a new account a few months ago after closing my ten year old account. Everything is there again.
Not sure reddit's point in restoring them, other than a stark reminder that comments and personal info mining is the point of reddit, not community engagement, just like all the other social media.
Curious if anyone has any idea on how to permanently delete comment history?
33 votes -
Are smartphones driving our teens to depression?
13 votes -
What to know about the proposed Kids Online Safety Act and its chances of passing in the US Congress
20 votes -
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny.
43 votes -
Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas, blames new trans privacy law
28 votes -
Facebook and Instagram's algorithmic favoritism towards extremist parties revealed in new study of political ads in Germany
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/r/nixos enables automated moderation with Watchdog
16 votes -
LGBT and marginalized voices are not welcome on Threads
35 votes -
A wife’s revenge from beyond the grave
48 votes -
Goodbye, ‘soy boys.’ Hello, swole vegans. These powerlifters and strongmen are lifting heavier weights with a diet that's lighter on the planet.
22 votes -
Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it’s a social network
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Crunchyroll announces the removal of its comment section across all platforms to 'reduce harmful content'
49 votes -
Court says Andrew Tate can leave Romania but remain in EU as he awaits trial
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'I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner’: How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children’s mother and why police do nothing
35 votes -
Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour
18 votes -
OnlyFans vows it's a safe space. Predators are exploiting kids there.
15 votes -
Once threatened with extinction, towel animals are absolutely thriving
13 votes -
Game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect ‘immediately’ terminating relationship with the streamer
34 votes -
‘I wouldn't come here, to be honest,’ says the disdainful star of Visit Oslo's latest advert, which has become a viral hit online
34 votes -
YouTube is testing "Premium Jump Ahead" (built-in sponsorblock)
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What are some lesser known food and cooking YouTubers?
Feel free to define lesser known how you like. Here's my list. Most of these have fewer than 100,000 subscribers. Some of them have fewer than 10,000 subs. Al Brady (32k subs) Has a nice mix of...
Feel free to define lesser known how you like. Here's my list. Most of these have fewer than 100,000 subscribers. Some of them have fewer than 10,000 subs.
Has a nice mix of sweet and savoury food. Has a lot of videos below ten minutes - there's a rapid pacing here that avoids the problems of TikTok / YT Shorts cooking. Enough time to explain what he's doing, no useless padding.
A reasonably new channel (only 33 videos as I post this). He has a method for pricing the recipes, and we can always argue about whether that makes sense or not, but at least it's consistent across his videos so viewers get an idea of relative costs. The recipes are simple. They're aimed at providing tasty filling food for cheap. The production values are low - no fancy lighting, no fancy camera, the kitchen table looks a bit rickety.
He's from Bristol (South West UK) and has the regional accent to prove it. He visits and reviews street food and cafés. I love videos like this - show-casing normal eateries. It's rough and ready - he sometimes includes swearing. And he's usually positive, or occasionally very mildly not positive. But I like that. He does a mix of shorts and long form - the long form does tend to be a bit calmer and explanatory.
Features food, mostly street food or bread, from Iran. I like the "show don't tell" aspect of these videos. There are loads of street food videos and I watch quite a few. Lots of videos are presented by people that I don't enjoy watching.
Another street food channel, again from Iran. This is the video that I really like - street food often looks like it has been rapidly cooked, but there are examples of slow cooked food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDJowrQQisg
At over 100k subs this probably doesn't belong here, but I think this fits here because many of their videos get fewer than 1000 views. Views are picking up recently. It's a great channel if you're interested in fine dining in the UK. There are a huge number of interviews with some very very good chefs here, and often they demonstrate one of their dishes.
He researches regional dishes from France, Spain, and Portugal and he claims to present traditional "authentic" versions of various dishes. I've only just started watching, and I'm not sure if I'll end up finding that he's not for me.
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Danish government makes new pact with youth organisations to protect children in the EU from the addictive design of social media and tech giants' business models
8 votes -
Squabblr is now a free speech platform
139 votes -
I don’t know James Rolfe
35 votes -
The last good vibes social media platform
16 votes