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9 votes
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Twitter announces that the plan to delete inactive accounts is now on hold, but was primarily aimed at EU accounts due to GDPR
14 votes -
Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
24 votes -
What's gone wrong with the FTC's COPPA agreement with YouTube
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Cancel culture" has always existed - for the powerful, at least - now social media has democratized it
18 votes -
Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
31 votes -
Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
30 votes -
Twitter adds 'hide reply' function to try to improve online conversation
7 votes -
The online left goes to war: Stefan Bertram-Lee was an internet leftist. And then they went to Rojava [Northern Syria / Western Kurdistan] and got a gun
10 votes -
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: content moderation at scale is impossible to do well
10 votes -
Kylie Jenner shows me what's wrong with Reddit
9 votes -
Would you pay for social media platforms and search engines if it meant they would not have any advertising or data collection?
(Someone posted a thread like this but for triple-a videogames rather than software and people said no so I wonder if software is gonna be different.) If you would or not, why? If you would, how...
(Someone posted a thread like this but for triple-a videogames rather than software and people said no so I wonder if software is gonna be different.)
If you would or not, why? If you would, how much? What would be the side effects of this change if it was applied on a mass scale? What would be the potential drawbacks?
Edit: Can also apply to video-sharing platforms or forums or instant messengers any software as long as it serves a general purpose and complies with what's mentioned above.
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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network named WT:Social
56 votes -
Moments Without Truth
5 votes -
YouTube is requiring all new and existing videos be marked as "Made for Kids" if they're intended for children, which will disable personalized ads, end screens, comments, and more
16 votes -
New YouTube terms will allow Google to terminate accounts that it determines are not "commercially viable"
Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10: YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its...
Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10:
YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.
However, it's not clear whether "Service" is YouTube or whole Google account. As we've seen in Markiplier affair, violating YouTube TOS meant that people lost access to their whole Google account - including gmail and gdrive.
37 votes -
Social networking and dog food
9 votes -
Does transparency in moderation really matter? User behavior after content removal explanations on Reddit.
14 votes -
Viacom sues YouTube for a billion dollars | YouTube Geographic
6 votes -
DEV (dev.to) raises an $11.5 million Series A
6 votes -
Instagram "Personals" account relaunches as Lex, a dating and social app targeted for people who are lesbian, bisexual, asexual, womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two-spirit and non-binary
14 votes -
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
6 votes -
Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
15 votes -
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
9 votes -
Holy shit, Contra said a thing! Well, guess I better singlehandedly solve BreadTube
10 votes -
After three months offline, 8chan returns as 8kun
24 votes -
Designing Facebook's new company branding
10 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
21 votes -
A novel example of namespace clashing in competition between bots
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems. Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who...
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems.
Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who calls it in a reddit comment with the phrase "RemindMe!", has been cloned and iterated upon by another bot, Kzreminderbot, which responds to the exact same trigger phrase. Both bots reply to the comment threads where they are summoned. Kzreminderbot has slightly more diverse features, including email/text notification, but the interesting thing here (I think) is the impotence of the response from the creator of RemindMeBot, who has added a link in their comment replies to send annoyed feedback to the second bot.
We talk occasionally about the scramble for usernames on new services, but this is an slightly novel example of the cascading hierarchies of website design. A feature which reddit lacked is added by a bot, but that bot is too provisional to cover the hole which it was meant to fill.
8 votes -
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
42 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"—Jedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
11 votes -
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters
@mikebeas: Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO
9 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth
16 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
27 votes -
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
8 votes -
In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
11 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
13 votes -
Twitter stock plunges 20% as company blames ad-targeting problems for earnings miss
10 votes -
Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit
10 votes -
The Internet and the Third Estate
5 votes -
Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests
15 votes -
This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
18 votes -
Yahoo Groups will prevent new content from being uploaded on October 28, and all previous content will be deleted on December 14
12 votes -
Your options for saving Yahoo Groups content
9 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's prepared remarks for congressional hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
16 votes -
The trials and process of stop motion automotive restoration
5 votes -
Mastodon 3.0 has been released
26 votes