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2 votes
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Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don't take him seriously.
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Megathread: April Fools' Day 2019 on the internet
It's already started a little, but over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot...
It's already started a little, but over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot of these can be quite clever and interesting so I think posting about them in general is fine, but in the interest of preventing them from completely taking over Tildes, let's try to keep as many of them restricted to this thread as possible. Ideally, a separate top-level comment for each individual item would be good.
If something particularly discussion-worthy comes up (like an ARG or activity that a lot of people want to talk about), a separate thread is reasonable, but please make sure it has the "april fools day" tag. That way, if anyone wants to avoid seeing the April Fools' Day threads, they can use the topic tag filters and filter that tag out.
I'm going to use the "official" styling for this topic (that's usually only for ~tildes.official topics) to make it stand out more to try to encourage people to notice it. My availability tomorrow will probably be limited, so if you notice people making individual topics for April Fools' Day things that don't really warrant their own topic, please (nicely) encourage them to delete and post in here instead.
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Mark Zuckerberg: The internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas
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The EU just destroyed the internet
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A YouTuber finds wholesome, heartbreaking stories behind silly VRChat avatars
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Are online travel platforms responsible for your safety?
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Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
22 votes -
Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
48 votes -
radicle - peer-to-peer source code repositories using IPFS (alpha)
8 votes -
Intransigence: A social history of the internet
5 votes -
The alt-right playbook: Always a bigger fish
14 votes -
Microsoft says the FCC 'overstates' broadband availability in the US
16 votes -
Fifty years of the internet -- What we learned, and where will we go next?
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A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory and found that hundreds of Russians were working as paid trolls in rotating shifts
20 votes -
The internet is not your friend: MySpace and the loss of memories
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Inside the 'shitposting' subculture the alleged Christchurch shooter belonged to
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Putin has signed into law Russia's ‘fake news’ and ‘Internet insults’ bans
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Reddit has become a battleground of alleged Chinese trolls
18 votes -
The lost worlds of telnet
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Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
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Algorithms Allowed: a project that tracks usage of Google and Facebook assets in countries under US sanctions
6 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
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How the internet travels across oceans
8 votes -
Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
7 votes -
An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
8 votes -
Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a remarkably common password
57 votes -
When did everyone become socialist?
46 votes -
Mountain of tongues: Can a nationalist movement from the internet save the world's most scattered people?
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I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong.
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THQ Nordic hosts an AMA on 8chan, releases apology two hours later
10 votes -
Memes are our generation's protest art
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OneWeb set to launch first satellites in quest to provide global internet coverage from space
10 votes -
What happened to broadband in Australia? NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet.
6 votes -
Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade
20 votes -
Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine
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Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
27 votes -
The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable?
14 votes -
Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned cyberwar test
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Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
11 votes -
The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs
11 votes -
Is Huawei a friend or foe in the battle for 5G dominance?
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Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times
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The alt-right playbook: The card says moops
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The island nation of Tonga is facing a near-total internet blackout. The country’s only undersea cable was damaged during a storm.
12 votes -
“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
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These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown
8 votes -
The Rise and Demise of RSS
28 votes -
The internet, but not as we know it: Life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia
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Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
11 votes