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109 votes
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Do you ever "self filter" before making a post or comment and what is it based on?
Lately, I've started posting a bit on twitter as much as I do here. What I've found is that I used to just pour my heart and post anything I wanted earlier but since I've got a couple hundred...
Lately, I've started posting a bit on twitter as much as I do here. What I've found is that I used to just pour my heart and post anything I wanted earlier but since I've got a couple hundred followers now (many folks I often interact with have started following me), I always keep wondering what they will think as they see this new post on their timeline.
Another thing is that many of those folks are from different countries and issues pertaining to India (which I'm often tempted to post on!) may not even be relevant to them. Further complicating the issue is that the tastes, cultures, morals, ethics, etc. vary greatly between the Orient and Occident. How aware are Western folks about the politics and happenings in this part of the world, especially India and surrounding regions? Of one thing I'm sure is that there is an ample scope for misunderstanding here, of one another's perspectives. The kind of things and views which are popular or even acceptable here may not be in other parts of the world and vice versa.
One of the obvious filters I apply to all my conversations is the "political filter" (in the sense of electoral politics) which I think is a wise thing to do. Politics has this very nasty habit of dividing people who are very well meaning of one another and come to the discussion in good faith otherwise. I don't think a person should be cancelled due to their mere opinion (however radical or unacceptable it might be). We can disagree however strongly we want and as long as the other person reciprocates, it's a win-win for everyone, right?
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Y'all are nerds (according to math)
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Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
26 votes -
Substack turns on its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ sign
89 votes -
‘Scream 7’ director Christopher Landon exits “a dream job that turned into a nightmare”
10 votes -
Technology is making people busier during their so called free time
34 votes -
Flipboard begins to federate
21 votes -
The work of online volunteers - Moderators’ work on Reddit and Facebook is crucial but not paid. We should be creative in how we compensate them.
32 votes -
Twitch's new sexual content guidelines updated to include 'artistic nudity' after viral topless stream
45 votes -
Threads is starting to make content available on the Fediverse
33 votes -
Elon Musk's X receives Pennsylvania money license in push toward payment features
3 votes -
YouTube likely lowering resolution of videos if it detects you using Firefox on Asahi Linux
39 votes -
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
26 votes -
Bluesky says it will allow users to opt out of the public web interface after backlash
23 votes -
Ex-Twitter exec claims X fired him for raising security concerns
21 votes -
New Mexico attorney general sues Meta for allegedly failing to protect children from predators on Facebook, Instagram
21 votes -
Reddit moderators of r/law and r/scotus filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court first amendment case Moody v NetChoice LLC
62 votes -
Plagiarism and You(Tube)
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Can a social media post change public opinion? Researchers weigh in.
14 votes -
Across the ASMRverse
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Gaza and the future of information warfare
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What does it mean to friend someone online?
Recently my daughter (third grade) has started learning to type at school. It's a Montessori program, so it's a pretty low tech environment overall, which I mention because I don't necessarily...
Recently my daughter (third grade) has started learning to type at school. It's a Montessori program, so it's a pretty low tech environment overall, which I mention because I don't necessarily expect them to have a nuanced view of technology issues.
One of the typing programs they use is nitrotype.com, which adds a competitive gameplay element. However, it also has mechanism to friend another player. Friends can only communicate with stock phrases, so there's not too much "Internet leakage" beyond being able to choose a username.
I set it up for my daughter on her Linux Chromebook (I whitelist things I want her to have and everything else is blocked at DNS). Seeing her interact with it the first time, I realized that she spends as much time "adding friends" as doing the typing.
On its face, this activity is pretty harmless. But I am worried about the patterns it might be creating for her. I'm worried about her uncritically engaging with the dopamine hit of getting a new friend. Or how it shapes her idea of how many friends she has or where idea of her self worth comes from. Or what she thinks friends are.
So after that long preamble, here are some questions:
- How would you explain "friends" in this context?
- Would you distinguish them from other kinds of friends, either real or virtual?
- Would you attach a moral component to the activity? E.g. that it is good/bad or helpful/harmful
- How would you frame it to the teacher? Not so much in terms of whether or not they should do it in the classroom, but what kinds of conversations should they be having about the friends experience?
- If I'm asking the wrong questions, what questions should I be asking instead?
I'm really interested in seeing the perspectives people have on this. My own ideas are a bit murky, but I will put them down as a comment.
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Six months from now this channel stops
27 votes -
Silicon Valley vs. teenage girls
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Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data
40 votes -
Former Twitter employees give advice to companies who want to replace it
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Meta’s Threads to launch in Europe in app’s biggest expansion since debut
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TikTok pledges €12B European investment over ten years as work on Norwegian data center begins
6 votes -
The internet is worse than ever – now what?
28 votes -
The truth behind all that cortisol talk. What exactly is high cortisol? A debunking guide.
11 votes -
A tourism boom to the Faroe Islands, fuelled by social media, has resulted in some landowners taking measures to get a share of the revenues
8 votes -
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege
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Facebook does not let me delete my account
I did not use facebook for ages, i always thought i need it for my international contacts, but now this new pay or say yes to ads window showed up I realised I did not use it for a long time. So I...
I did not use facebook for ages, i always thought i need it for my international contacts, but now this new pay or say yes to ads window showed up I realised I did not use it for a long time. So I was like, tech is like clothes, if you don't use it for a year it's time to let it go.
So i tried to delete my acc.
After some research (wtf????) I finally found this page
https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
where I can click my through a menu, until I can enter my password to delete my account, and it just does not let me.
""Sorry, this feature isn't available right now""
wtf? how is deleting my acc not available????
fuck this, fuck them. this is one of the "leading" tech enterprises. this is one of the biggest fucking companies in the world.
I don't know how that is even legal.
I'm so fucking angry. Fuck this fucking fuckers!
does somebody know what i can do? can i send them an angry real life letter? do i need a lawyer?
I'm not really in the EU, but the GDPR still applicates to me. so what do I do now to get rid of this fucking fuckers?ps. looking in the internet does not help nothing, it's just 100s of links to facebook help center. fuck the fucking modern web as well.
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A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month
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China tried to keep kids off social media. Now the elderly are hooked.
27 votes -
Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others
18 votes -
Melissa Barrera dropped from ‘Scream VII’ after social media posts amid Israel-Hamas war
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Twitter’s former head of trust and safety finally breaks her silence
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A fired ‘Scream’ star, clients booted from agencies and a secret Tom Cruise meeting: Inside Hollywood’s divide over Israel
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Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
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Why do people make inflammatory posts and comments on LinkedIn?
I go to LinkedIn to find work. My real name is there. My picture is there. My career history is there. There are many places on the Internet where I can anonymously post inflammatory opinions...
I go to LinkedIn to find work.
My real name is there. My picture is there. My career history is there.
There are many places on the Internet where I can anonymously post inflammatory opinions without endangering my job, my career, or my reputation in my field.
I kind of feel like that is the situation on for everyone else on LinkedIn too.
So... why do some people post inflammatory opinions about politics and other non-career related subjects on that site?
All risk and for zero gain.
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Norway's privacy battle with Meta is just getting started – regulator says it's investigating the company's new ad-free subscription services
28 votes -
US Ninth Circuit judge allows social media lawsuit to proceed. Section 230 doesn't automatically protect against liability for platform design defects.
16 votes -
Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream
32 votes -
In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers and independent outlets struggle to survive
15 votes -
Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news
15 votes -
The Brain Scoop relaunch!
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Jezebel and the question of women’s anger
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Internet sleuths want to track down this mystery pop song. They only have seventeen seconds of it.
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Every mistake I’ve made since 2014
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International YouTube Premium price increase underway in some countries
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Omegle was forced to shut down by a lawsuit from a sexual abuse survivor
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Unzicker's "Real Physics": on dangers of Youtube physicists
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Desert Bus For Hope 2023 begins in half an hour
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The limits of our digital social connections
I don’t think it’s just social media that is making us so unhappy these days. Even texting has lost its power to communicate and connect us. My parents lost one of their best friends to old age...
I don’t think it’s just social media that is making us so unhappy these days. Even texting has lost its power to communicate and connect us.
My parents lost one of their best friends to old age yesterday and none of us can seem to find the right thing to say. It’s all just near misses and misinterpretation of intentions.
When texting first started a generation ago, it seemed a miraculous way to share all kinds of details we never could before. But now it only seems to emphasize what we won’t ever understand about each other.
The bloom is off the rose and our screens no longer seem to make us happy the way they used to.
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RIP Omegle 2009-2023
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How to use the YouTube website?
Youtube has become rather broken of late. The nagware popup complaining about my ad blocker can no longer be removed. I don't want ads and I certainly aren't going to pay. So far, I download the...
Youtube has become rather broken of late. The nagware popup complaining about my ad blocker can no longer be removed. I don't want ads and I certainly aren't going to pay. So far, I download the videos via Jdownloader. Is there a less bothersome way? How do you go about it?
25 votes -
YouTube’s anti-adblock and uBlock Origin
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A Meta engineer known as an expert at curbing online harassment saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before the US Congress
19 votes -
Crypto Twitter found Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud
9 votes -
California man has gone viral for making and eating a historical or weird sandwich on camera every day
18 votes -
X runs unblockable ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film
96 votes -
Online vitriol could undo decades of political progress, warns Dutch deputy PM
18 votes -
Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how
18 votes -
Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker
56 votes -
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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Meta accused by states of using features to lure children to Instagram and Facebook
18 votes -
The poster’s guide to the internet of the future
22 votes -
YouTube anti-adblock detection is illegal in the EU
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Do you know any other good online communities?
So far I only managed to find two online communities in which people are able to hold a productive discussion and share interesting stuff - Tildes and LessWrong. Do you know if there are any other...
So far I only managed to find two online communities in which people are able to hold a productive discussion and share interesting stuff - Tildes and LessWrong. Do you know if there are any other great online spaces like this?
65 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg delivers on promise to pour 'gasoline' on Threads growth as the platform regains users while X shrinks
21 votes -
Is cinema dying? And if so, who is responsible? – A murder mystery
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YouTube is now rolling out disabling videos after detecting adblockers
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Mastodon is the good one
25 votes -
Cops are suing a teen for invasion of privacy after allegedly false arrest goes viral
15 votes -
‘Verified’ OSINT accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem
18 votes -
Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach
33 votes -
A handful of influencers are trying to turn the tide on toxic masculinity. But can they get anyone to listen?
36 votes -
Incel ideology has entered the mainstream
52 votes -
Real wars are now flame wars: Social media battles are now an integral part of modern day military conflict
16 votes -
How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads
18 votes -
Temu: What it is, and why it matters
37 votes -
Bedbugs are becoming a big headache in Paris ahead of Olympics
24 votes -
Meta in Myanmar, Part 1: The Setup
12 votes -
Elon Musk sued for defamation of recent college graduate by attorney who won $49 million from Alex Jones over Sandy Hook lies
59 votes -
Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money
61 votes -
The war on stolen content
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YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan
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Gracias and Arigatō, Tildes
This is yet another quarterly thank you note to all you wonderful folks over here for creating this mind blowing community called "Tildes". It wouldn't be an exaggeration if the times we are...
This is yet another quarterly thank you note to all you wonderful folks over here for creating this mind blowing community called "Tildes".
It wouldn't be an exaggeration if the times we are living in right now can be termed "the Dark Ages of the Internet". I've got a strange feeling that posterity will look back upon us with that exact feeling some day.
It is perhaps impossible to express yourself today without being judged for your religion, ethnicity, caste, creed, gender, nationality, political opinion, etc. The world has become a very dismal place in that sense. It focuses on these peripheral aspects of the person rather than the content or subject matter itself of what is being said.
Social networks like Tildes are like tiny islands of positivity left in such times, they give me hope that all is not lost and there is a possibility to recover from this some day.
In any case, sending you all wonderful vibes of happiness and serenity, let this community thrive and prosper!
34 votes -
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform
93 votes -
Norway asks EU regulator European Data Protection Board to fine Facebook owner Meta over privacy breach
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Millions of people see staying home and cleaning as their idea of a good time
31 votes -
It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
52 votes -
Kick revisits moderation policy after CEO laughs at sex worker ‘prank’ stream
18 votes -
xQc is stealing content (and so are most reaction streamers)
51 votes -
Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action
67 votes -
Inside Tiktok's real-life frenzies - from riots to false murder accusations
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US cities have a staggering problem of Kia and Hyundai thefts. This data shows it.
32 votes -
Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok
38 votes