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25 votes
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Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
5 votes -
"Couchsurfing needs your help" - Couchsurfing has changed to a subscription model
4 votes -
Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled
8 votes -
A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs
2 votes -
Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million
25 votes -
Nitter, JS free interface for Twitter
15 votes -
Reddit releases "community points", tokens on the Ethereum blockchain awarded for posts - currently available in /r/cryptocurrency and /r/FortniteBR
20 votes -
Cooking food on the internet for fun and profit
7 votes -
How to be a good contributor to Tildes?
Recently, I have blocked both reddit and facebook on my computer and devices in order to combat the utter fatigue that engagement with those sites produces. I've always really enjoyed the...
Recently, I have blocked both reddit and facebook on my computer and devices in order to combat the utter fatigue that engagement with those sites produces. I've always really enjoyed the atmosphere here at Tildes better than either site and have hoped (though I gather this is not currently the goal) that it would supplant reddit in the future.
In order to get my news/discussion fix, I've begun submitting more content here than I have before. In the mornings, I go through my RSS feed, and pick out articles that I feel are interesting/would spark discussion here. I also try to conduct myself better here than I might on reddit, where JAQing off and bad faith argumentation are much more common.
I don't want to flood Tildes with too much content, so I'm trying to submit fewer than 10 articles per day. What are some other tips for good etiquette here, particularly insofar as it differs from reddit? I know there is an FAQ about Tildes but I'd like to hear what the community thinks, too.
Best,
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Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever
16 votes -
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group
6 votes -
What are your internet time sinks?
Where do you all waste away most of your time on the internet? I hate to sound like a hipster, but I've come to avoid and/or dislike most main stream content aggregators. Reddit, Twitter,...
Where do you all waste away most of your time on the internet? I hate to sound like a hipster, but I've come to avoid and/or dislike most main stream content aggregators. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are all platforms I no longer participate in because of privacy and quality reasons. I like Tildes and all, but the community is small (and I like it this way) and that means the content isn't always fresh. So where else do you all hang out?
31 votes -
Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire
18 votes -
A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
12 votes -
Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
15 votes -
Reddit introduces new "Start Chatting" feature across many subreddits, AskHistorians goes dark for 1 hour in protest to broken promises
57 votes -
US President Donald Trump claims ‘Noble Prize’ tweets were sarcastic then shares deepfake Biden video in barrage of conspiracy-laden tweets
15 votes -
Facebook approved ads with coronavirus misinformation, in an experiment which raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
8 votes -
Facebook invests $5.7 billion in India's Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder in the telecommunications company
7 votes -
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
6 votes -
Political discussion here seems to be really bad. Is it even possible for it to be good?
I think it's clear that all tildes political discussion leads to intractable arguments. Considering tildes was created to foster high quality discussion, I was wondering if it's even possible to...
I think it's clear that all tildes political discussion leads to intractable arguments. Considering tildes was created to foster high quality discussion, I was wondering if it's even possible to have nuanced political discussions online. In person discussions work for me because I have base levels of respect for all the people I talk to, but that's quite difficult to get online. Are we doomed to snark and condescension filled megathreads, or is there a better way to structure the conversations? Are there additional political ground rules that need to be set up?
43 votes -
The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet
9 votes -
5G coronavirus conspiracy theory fueled by coordinated effort
6 votes -
Twitter removes privacy option, and shows why we need strong privacy laws
17 votes -
YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks
26 votes -
Does JK Rowling’s breathing technique cure the coronavirus? No, it could help spread it
6 votes -
Operation red herring | YouTube geographic
3 votes -
Dolly Parton will read children's books at bedtime on social media
13 votes -
Finland enlists social influencers in fight against Covid-19 – government advice sent to bloggers, rappers and writers to get to those not reached by traditional media
5 votes -
The difficulties of moderating COVID-19 misinformation when even statements from official sources are questionable
7 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy
17 votes -
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
27 votes -
How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it)
9 votes -
YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month
12 votes -
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is
20 votes -
Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time
4 votes -
Bill Gates does an AMA on Reddit about coronavirus
15 votes -
US FDA turns to Twitter to help track testing supply shortages
4 votes -
"I'm not an epidemiologist, but..." - When Twitter engagement decides who's in charge of distributing public health information
3 votes -
Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
4 votes -
Inside the pro-Donald Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax
10 votes -
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
21 votes -
Do you still post on Reddit?
There are some very specific kinds of interactions that are much harder to find anywhere else. At the same time, large subreddits tend to have stringent rules, which mods frequently apply in an...
There are some very specific kinds of interactions that are much harder to find anywhere else. At the same time, large subreddits tend to have stringent rules, which mods frequently apply in an inconsistent and subjective manner.
I get that it's hard to manage a sub with thousands of people, but at the same time, it is frustrating to make an effort to write a long post just to realize there is no place for it.
To make matters worse, the principle of charity is basically unheard of, and people will evaluate your sentences in such a way to make them the least true, sometimes adding personal hostilities.
Posting on Reddit feels like something that should require a legal department, and I would very much like to stop doing that altogether. At the same time, places like /r/emacs are essential to help me quickly solve issues, and /r/destructiveReaders/ gave me some of the best criticism of my material I have ever had (and I'm including people from outside the Internet).
So I guess it comes up to self-control to not waste my time with subs that are prone to be toxic. But it's hard, sometimes.
Do you still post on Reddit? If so, what are your strategies to avoid unnecessary frustration?
32 votes -
I wonder what the social media meta data is like right now
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what...
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what kind of research they are doing? I know it's all usually a tight secret.
One idea that came to mind is that this would be excellent data to weaponize. Now we (as in social media corps.) can generate a pretty good model of what a global conflict looks like on the level of individual behavior and how that can be used for an advantage. The other edge of the sword would be this will help future public health initiatives but somehow I don't see this info being made publically available...
7 votes -
Päivi Räsänen is facing new police investigations for citing Bible verses on social media to object to the Lutheran church's participation in an LGBT pride event
4 votes -
Sharing photos has the potential to reveal a lot of personal information, even if you're careful with removing metadata
9 votes -
The future will be technical: a modular essay about our optimistic future
4 votes -
Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web
9 votes