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4 votes
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They stole my voice with AI
35 votes -
Using YouTube to steal your files
39 votes -
YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally
53 votes -
Amazing Digital Circus episodes to be simulcast on Netflix and YouTube
11 votes -
How to succeed in Mr Beast production (leaked PDF)
38 votes -
Brazilians flock to Bluesky after court bans Elon Musk’s X
41 votes -
TikTok argues in federal appeals court that US ban would have ‘staggering’ impact on free speech
39 votes -
Looking for chill horror lets players
I like to listen to mostly horror let’s plays throughout the day and at bedtime because they are good background noise for me. I just want to find more chill options that don’t do any over the top...
I like to listen to mostly horror let’s plays throughout the day and at bedtime because they are good background noise for me.
I just want to find more chill options that don’t do any over the top screaming. Preferably some that need a boost and are lesser known.
I’ll contribute my own to get started. Her name is Hula Noob and she’s very chill, lots of dialogue and commentary which I like.
I do know about Gab too. Though she’s a little more diversified. Which is fine.
18 votes -
What the death of Cohost tells me about my future on the internet
Cohost.org, an independent social media blogging platform, will be shutting down as early as next month. A lot of users are talking about how their time on Cohost changed the way they think about...
Cohost.org, an independent social media blogging platform, will be shutting down as early as next month. A lot of users are talking about how their time on Cohost changed the way they think about what an experience in an online community can be like in the modern age of the internet. People saying that they'd rather move forward with spending more time offline and with their hobbies than chasing the next social media site after Cohost's closure. I tend to agree.
After checking an old forum recently that I used to frequent in the heyday of internet forums, I found it filled with racist fear-mongering that is left unmoderated after the driving force of the community passed away half a decade ago. I wonder how much of the spirit of the old web we can realistically rekindle. If you're on Tildes, you probably know everything about the faults of giant social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit. Heck, the poor quality the YouTube comments section was a meme when YouTube was new. It was never good on those sites. Just tolerable and everybody was there so you kind of had no choice. Now, many of those platforms are self-imploding.
Cohost, like Tildes, created an atmosphere where you didn't feel like you were committing a moral wrongdoing by not immediately spewing scalding hot takes about current events, drama and conflicts. You were encouraged to write text that wasn't throwaway garbage. You could have meaningful conversations about issues and find an audience. Cohost was not without its flaws. People of colour in particular recently shared experiences of racist harassment on the site that was purely handled by moderation. But overall the takes I'm reading now is that most people will be able to look back on their time on Cohost fondly. I've seen people calling it "the Dreamcast of websites".
Cohost was a social media site that was a joy to visit for me and didn't put me on an edge by interacting with it. I could write posts, long-form posts without pressure to hit out another one-line zinger while a topic "is still relevant". I didn't see endless chains of subtweets that deliberately avoided explicitly mentioning the drama they were commenting on, lest the hate mob find their comment. I didn't get into that kind of unnerving cycle of "I don't know what this post is about, but the infrastructure of this social network suggests it's a moral failure to not chime in on the topic de jour, so I better get going and scan vile tweets for an hour to find out what's going on".
And before you say that this is only a Twitter problem, I have had pretty much exactly the same experiences on Mastodon and especially Bluesky. I feel the same in over-crowded Discord servers where it's very difficult to keep track of what's been talked about and what the current topic of discussion is. I feel the same on the few active forums that still exist, like resetera, where there's just posts upon posts that you're kind of expected to read before you chime in into a thread.
So where to go from here? I'm thinking about setting up my own proper blog, maybe hosted on an own website. That way I can continue to create long form posts about topics I want to. And bring back a little more of the spirit of the old internet. Cohost is dead, but there's no going back to me to doomscrolling. Today I set my phone to aggressively limit my daily usage of Reddit & Mastodon. I said the following when Twitter crashed and burned, but this time I'm not desperate, but genuine when I say: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
30 votes -
Jan Hakon Erichsen explains how he became an Instagram star by smashing vegetables, popping balloons – and nearly killing himself with a knife sculpture
5 votes -
cohost.org to shut down by the end of 2024
36 votes -
Abuse on BlueSky up 10x with Brazilian wave
17 votes -
China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate
25 votes -
How does BlueSky work?
11 votes -
In leak, Facebook partner brags about listening to your phone’s microphone to serve ads for stuff you mention
48 votes -
Is Google training AI on YouTube videos?
17 votes -
Court: Section 230 doesn’t shield TikTok from blackout challenge death suit
25 votes -
Brazil's top court threatens to suspend X (formerly Twitter) by Thursday night if Elon Musk does not comply with regulations
23 votes -
Elon Musk’s lawyers quietly subpoena public interest groups
38 votes -
Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation
15 votes -
Icelandic supermarkets have been left in a pickle, after a viral TikTok trend saw an unprecedented surge in demand for cucumbers
7 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump’s post of fake Taylor Swift endorsement is his latest embrace of AI-generated images
36 votes -
Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
17 votes -
What happens when influencers turn off comments
15 votes -
A professor is suing Facebook over its recommendation algorithms
23 votes -
Rifftrax Youtube channel taken down
30 votes