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3 votes
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Truth, disrupted
8 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admits platform not a place for 'nuanced discussion' as top New York Times reporter quits after abuse
28 votes -
The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
7 votes -
The SIM Hijackers
8 votes -
Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
31 votes -
Hooktube is dead
Hooktube.com used to provide a private way to view youtube vids, blocking ads, bypassing region locks, and also pulling comments and search results via the api. All you had to do was replace the...
Hooktube.com used to provide a private way to view youtube vids, blocking ads, bypassing region locks, and also pulling comments and search results via the api. All you had to do was replace the you in a youtube link with hook.
No more. On July 11, this appeared on the changelog:
HookTube no longer uses YouTube api for anything, and most features (channel page, search, related videos, etc) are gone. No choice.
Which was extremely bad, but at least you could still watch videos privately right?
July 16: YouTube api features are back but mp4 <video> is replaced with the standard YT video embed. HookTube is now effectively just a light-weight version of youtube and useless to the 90% of you primarily concerned with denying Google data and seeing videos blocked by your governments.
rest in pieces
It was a good run, 1.5 years. Started as a quickly made addition to the norbot project, and within long the server had to be upgraded several times. Of course YouTube Legal was an inevitability at that point.
Special thanks to the many people who created plugins and extensions for hooktube, /g/, the five people who donated anonymously, and BitChute for working hard on a real YouTube alternative. HookTube will remain operational in the present state for those who only needed it for performance reasons. See you in the next project.:(
Alternatives include: invidio.us, youtube-dl, the Freetube desktop app, Newpipe for Android, and
you’re doomed if you use iOS.ETA: Actually, I just remembered, there’s Media Grabber for the Workflow app. And Invidio mostly works on mobile.15 votes -
Women making science videos on YouTube face hostile comments
11 votes -
We are all public figures now
31 votes -
The woman in the #PlaneBae saga says she's been 'shamed, insulted, and harassed' since the story went viral and asks for her privacy
4 votes -
Elon Musk criticized for trying to help. Accused of selfish PR stunt.
23 votes -
Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers
7 votes -
Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to every tech company
21 votes -
Twitter is suspending more than one million accounts per day in latest purge
27 votes -
Facebook’s push for facial recognition prompts privacy alarms
14 votes -
Law of new new media platforms
4 votes -
Uganda just rolled out a five-cent daily tax to access social media
9 votes -
Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes
6 votes -
How community management and policing internet trolls became women's work
7 votes -
Facebook chats from planning session of Unite The Right 2 have been leaked
17 votes -
Facebook patent would turn your mic on to analyze how you watch ads
19 votes -
Facebook's retreat from the news has been painful for publishers
11 votes -
The messy fourth estate
5 votes -
Twitter 'Smytes' customers
13 votes -
Activism and doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE and how internet platforms have no good options
6 votes -
YouTube faces paying billions to music stars after copyright vote
6 votes -
YouTube faces paying billions to music stars after copyright vote
1 vote -
YouTube blocks MIT OpenWare and Blender videos, asks for monetization agreement
18 votes -
Facebook used less for news as youngsters turn to WhatsApp: Reuters Institute
11 votes -
Tumblr unfollowed me from a thousand blogs
One of my friends said "hey why did you unfollow me" I check my following list (witch is really hidden deep into the gui) and I see I went from following 2k (from when I check a few months back)...
One of my friends said "hey why did you unfollow me" I check my following list (witch is really hidden deep into the gui) and I see I went from following 2k (from when I check a few months back) to follow 600 people. WHAT HAPPENED, so now I'm freaking out franticly making sure I didn't lose anyone.
5 votes -
Reddit partial outage
6 votes -
Meet the people who still use Myspace: 'It's given me so much joy'
6 votes -
The Honest Ads Act hits a brick wall ahead of the midterms. Bill would level playing field between online and TV political ads.
6 votes -
Court Allows “Battery by GIF” Claim to Proceed–Eichenwald v. Rivello
5 votes -
The rise of Reddit's megathreads
I originally posted this as a comment here but thought it might deserve it's own discussion. I think that the rise of megathreads/ultrathreads/collections of threads on reddit has been a large...
I originally posted this as a comment here but thought it might deserve it's own discussion.
I think that the rise of megathreads/ultrathreads/collections of threads on reddit has been a large detriment to the site.
I'm a mod for a few large subreddits that utilizes them (and I know a good portion of people reading Tildes right now are as well), and as time goes on I've started to dislike them more and more.
At first they were great - they seemed to silo off all the posts and noise that happened around an event, and made the lives of mods easier. Posts that should've been comments could now be removed, and the user could be pointed towards the megathread. Users could go back to the post and sort by new to see new posts, and know that they'd all have to do with that one topic.
I believe that this silo actually hurts the community, and especially the discussion around that original megathread, more than it helps. As modteams I think we underestimate the resilience of our communities, and their ability to put up with "noise" around an event.
The fact that we are in a subreddit dedicated to that cause should be silo enough - each post in that subreddit should be treated as an "atomic" piece of information, with the comments being branches. By relegating all conversation to a megathread we turn top level comments into that atomic piece of information, and subcomments into the branches.
But that's just a poor implementation of the original! There are some edge cases where this might make sense (take /r/politics, it wouldn't make sense to have 9 of the top 10 posts just be slightly reworded posts on the same issues), but I think this can be remedied by better duplication rules (consider all posts on a certain topic to be a repost, unless the new post has new or different information).
There is something to be said about the ability to generate a new, blank sheet of conversation with a post, that is not marred with previous information or anecdotes. New comments on a megathread post don't have that luxury, but new posts do.
Additionally, I feel like the way reddit originally conditioned us to view posts is to view them then not check them again (unless we interacted with someone in it or got a notification). This prevents potentially great (but late) content from gaining visibility, as a non-negligible portion of the population will still be browsing the subreddit, but will never click the post again.
24 votes -
Facebook gave data access to Chinese firm flagged by US Intelligence
9 votes -
What can we learn from the life-cycles of Digg and Reddit?
I imagine that I'm not the only one here now that was part of the Digg exodus to Reddit many years ago and I wonder what you all think we can learn from the rise and fall of these platforms to...
I imagine that I'm not the only one here now that was part of the Digg exodus to Reddit many years ago and I wonder what you all think we can learn from the rise and fall of these platforms to better design our new community.
Is it inevitable that our social networks degrade with population until a new one rises from Its ashes, so to speak?
What can we do to protect ourselves from this pattern and maintain a healthy populace?
48 votes -
How the alt-right manipulates the internet’s biggest commenting platform Disqus
22 votes -
Instagram feed algorithm seems to take into account your WhatsApp correspondence.
I've been trying to tame tracking from services like Facebook. I installed many ad blockers and tracker blockers on all of my browser, I don't install FB app on my phone, but I still install...
I've been trying to tame tracking from services like Facebook. I installed many ad blockers and tracker blockers on all of my browser, I don't install FB app on my phone, but I still install Instagram app and WhatsApp.
Something creepy (but totally expected) just happened to me. I haven't really been in contact with a friend of mine for quite some time, and we finally chatted again using WhatsApp. Not long after that I opened Instagram, and her photo was the first one I saw haha. It's funny because I don't think I've seen any photos from her in quite some time before this on my IG feed.
Might just be a coincidence, but with all discussion about how creepy they're trying to make their platform as sticky as possible, I wouldn't be surprised if IG's feed algorithm do take into account your correspondence on WhatsApp as well (I live in a country where everyone uses WhatsApp).
10 votes -
More teens are ‘almost constantly’ online, and more are ditching Facebook
13 votes -
At Facebook's annual meeting, Mark Zuckerberg stuck to his talking points — and ignored some of shareholders' biggest concerns
4 votes -
Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax 'to stop gossip'
5 votes -
I don’t know how to waste time on the internet anymore
19 votes -
President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking users @realdonaldtrump
20 votes -
It's just the internet
6 votes -
Imgur adds videos
19 votes -
Facebook to be banned in Papua New Guinea for a month
7 votes -
Want to quell hate speech on social media? Talk to right-wing politicians
7 votes -
Trumps' Twitter is a public forum, rules federal judge: Good!
8 votes -
This bot is posting the Alabama Constitution on Twitter one tweet at a time. It's the longest constitution in the world. It will be done fall of next year.
@ala_const: the longest constitution in the ENTIRE world...
10 votes