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54 votes
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The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
13 votes -
Mastodon founder, Eugen, responding to Twitter's Bluesky announcement
21 votes -
Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology after criticism by a human rights group
4 votes -
The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
11 votes -
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
3 votes -
Twitter announces "bluesky", an investigation of decentralization standards for social media, with the goal of converting Twitter into a client
25 votes -
Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
38 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
12 votes -
What do you think about YouTube rewind 2019?
What do you think about it? I personally think it's just another rewind showcasing how YouTube is prioritizing more generic audiences and content because YouTube has pratically turned into online...
What do you think about it? I personally think it's just another rewind showcasing how YouTube is prioritizing more generic audiences and content because YouTube has pratically turned into online video and is more focused on growing into audiences who use the Internet for entertainment and to pander to advertisers and since YouTube is more the, rather than a platform, pretending the entirety of YouTube is or at this point even could be a united community without massive, world-wide changes to society is just incorrect. The list format like watchmojo is probably to pretend they have backpedaled and that they're now unbiased. (Also they have done it in this format before.)
14 votes -
TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
16 votes -
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
Suspected campaign from Russia on Reddit
31 votes -
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
12 votes -
YouTube Rewind 2019
4 votes -
Tumblr’s first year without porn
18 votes -
We should absolutely find out the Queen is dead from a guy named Gibbo
8 votes -
The alt-right playbook: How to radicalize a normie
27 votes -
Why TikTok is now the number one social media app
9 votes -
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
10 votes -
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.
26 votes -
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
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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
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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 -
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
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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