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26 votes
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Positive Youtube channels?
What are your favorite youtube channels to watch when you're in the mood for something positive and uplifting? No genre restrictions or anything, just something that really oozes the joy and...
What are your favorite youtube channels to watch when you're in the mood for something positive and uplifting? No genre restrictions or anything, just something that really oozes the joy and passion that the creator has.
I'll throw this one out there to start: Bicycle Touring Pro. He makes wonderful, slow paced and positive documentaries about his solo and group travels on his bike around the world. If you ever want to just zone out for a moment, throw this on and you just might be inspired.
25 votes -
Credit-based communication platforms?
Does anyone know of any communication platforms [1] which use a credit system or have a 'cost' attached to actions such as making a post or commenting? I am imagining something like Reddit or a...
Does anyone know of any communication platforms [1] which use a credit system or have a 'cost' attached to actions such as making a post or commenting? I am imagining something like Reddit or a forum where users have a balance, and actions have a cost which is charged against that balance. So if I have 100 credits and posting in r/whatever costs 2 credits/post and 1 credit/comment then that limits the amount of interaction in that sub.
I am wondering if a cost system like this would be useful for moderation or to promote high-value content, since it effectively turns the platform into a market. One effect of this system is that it would discourage low-value posts/replies/comments, because there is a cost associated with making a post, namely opportunity cost of posting something else later. Perhaps the credits are purchased with real-world currency, which I assume would amplify this effect?
I imagine a sustainable system would have some way to reward users of high-value content with more credit so they are incentivised and able to produce more content: maybe upvotes count as credit, or users can donate credit to each other?
[1] I hope this term is vague enough to encompass all forms of modern digital communication. I am curious about direct communication (email, WhatsApp, ...) as well as social media in its various forms (Reddit, Tildes, Twitter, ...), niche platforms (Letter), wikis, fora, and anything else under the sun.
12 votes -
YouTube Terms of Service updated with the “right to monetize”
26 votes -
Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
7 votes -
Twitter releases new "Fleets" feature
15 votes -
Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
4 votes -
Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer family
19 votes -
YouTube Rewind 2020 cancelled, very likely due to COVID-19
10 votes -
Twitter: An update on the features related to the 2020 US Elections
11 votes -
TikTok can continue to operate in the US, Commerce Department says
10 votes -
TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up
16 votes -
How do you describe TikTok? The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network
5 votes -
If bringing/migrating r/askbiblescholars to Tildes turns out well, what other subreddits/subreddit groups would you like to see here?
I've heard many people here like truereddit and the depthhub network and so would probably pop up a lot here but I wonder what other suggestions we might have. I'd probably like r/imaginarymaps...
I've heard many people here like truereddit and the depthhub network and so would probably pop up a lot here but I wonder what other suggestions we might have.
I'd probably like r/imaginarymaps and a lot of related fantasy subreddits. It would probably also be interesting to call more hobby/social/'extravert' subreddits (or, odds are, any subreddit about anything that requires going outside, physical effort/tools or requires multiple people.)
It would probably also be interesting to bring some subreddits for minority/discriminated against groups like r/ainbow, r/TwoXchromosomes or r/transgender.
Lastly, there are namesake subreddits like r/hobbies.
24 votes -
How one woman is sharing Kazakhstan’s national instrument and cultural dress on Instagram
6 votes -
A list of TokiPonists on Twitter
8 votes -
A series of tweets by one Miami University student that were critical of a proctoring software company were hidden by Twitter after the company filed a copyright takedown notice
12 votes -
Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage
12 votes -
Targeted by government misinformation, activists in the Phillipines are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of "red-tagging"
8 votes -
Evolving Reddit's workforce - Going forward, Reddit employees will mostly be able to work remotely from wherever they want, and all US employees will be paid the same, regardless of location
18 votes -
What is the Internet doing to baby boomers’ brains? Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.
20 votes -
Does the Reddit 'Popular' page base results on the user's preferences?
I use Reddit more than I should. I flip to the 'Popular' page to see current events. I am curious if I am looking at skewed results based on the subreddits and posts that I visit, or if I am truly...
I use Reddit more than I should. I flip to the 'Popular' page to see current events. I am curious if I am looking at skewed results based on the subreddits and posts that I visit, or if I am truly looking at a good sample of Reddit's popular posts?
3 votes -
The problem with (all) the tech hearings in Congress
7 votes -
Reddit worries it’s going to be crushed in the fight against Big Tech
16 votes -
Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for
23 votes -
Reddit announces "Predictions" - Allowing users to bet on the outcomes of polls with Coins (purchased with real money), where moderators are responsible for choosing which option wins
38 votes -
Mobilizon, a free-libre federated events and groups platform has launched v1.0
13 votes -
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
30 votes -
I watched my friend dying on Facebook - but it was all a GoFundMe scam
9 votes -
Facebook's Supreme Court arrives
4 votes -
How Facebook is bringing QUIC to billions
7 votes -
Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself
13 votes -
The Motte subreddit had a schism leading to the creation of a new community
4 votes -
QAnon/8Chan sites briefly knocked offline after call to internet provider
15 votes -
Is QAnon a game gone wrong?
14 votes -
Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story
16 votes -
YouTube has become the latest social media giant to announce a sweeping crack down on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory
10 votes -
How Reddit's "Am I the Asshole?" subreddit created a medium place on the internet
9 votes -
Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
14 votes -
Facebook account banned within ten minutes of linking Oculus account; decision reviewed and cannot be reversed. All prior purchases are lost. Oculus Quest is unusable.
37 votes -
How to get a "Reddit Experience" for Twitter?
Hey folks, I hate Twitter with a passion and find it very hard to follow discussions because they are so terribly displayed in the official App/Website. Unfortunately I have to use it for job...
Hey folks,
I hate Twitter with a passion and find it very hard to follow discussions because they are so terribly displayed in the official App/Website. Unfortunately I have to use it for job reasons and therefore I am looking for less headaches.
Is there an app which can show me Twitter content and discussion tree views like Reddit does?
I am totally willing to pay.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
8 votes -
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read
14 votes -
Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
16 votes -
A GPT-3 bot was posting on /r/AskReddit for a week and routinely getting upvoted and replied to
43 votes -
Additional steps Twitter is taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
15 votes -
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks
7 votes -
Let's play and win our own game
6 votes -
The "Proud Boys" hashtag on Twitter has been taken over by photos of gay men celebrating their lives and their love
31 votes -
YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop
9 votes -
Egypt: Security forces abuse, torture LGBT people
6 votes