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16 votes
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Twitter was going to ban Alex Jones — until its CEO stepped in and protected him
19 votes -
An update on the FireEye report and Reddit
37 votes -
Wil Wheaton (wilw): This admin is going to suspend my account
35 votes -
Amber Enderton on why Wil Wheaton got chased off Mastodon
13 votes -
Logged off: Meet the teens who refuse to use social media
39 votes -
We can't fix the internet (because we conflate social media with the entire internet)
13 votes -
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
15 votes -
A small group of American Amazon employees is being paid to defend and promote the company on Twitter
16 votes -
Facebook is being eclipsed by its youthful rival Snapchat
17 votes -
Instagram is testing virtual communities for college students
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Reddit releases more details about the upcoming changes to Reddit Gold
If you missed it, Reddit recently announced some major planned changes to Reddit Gold. It's pretty vague and confusing, but my summary was: The current gold system is basically: When you have...
If you missed it, Reddit recently announced some major planned changes to Reddit Gold. It's pretty vague and confusing, but my summary was:
The current gold system is basically:
- When you have reddit gold, you can disable ads and have access to a few extra features.
- You can buy gold for $4/month or $30 if you buy 12 months at the same time. You can also buy "creddits" for the same prices, which are basically stored months of gold and can either be used on yourself or to give gold to other users.
- Giving gold to other users is called "gilding". You can gild individual posts on the site, which puts a gold icon on that post and gives the author a month of gold.
Now, from what I can understand, this is the new system:
- Reddit gold is now called "Reddit Premium". You can buy it for yourself for $6/month. There are no bulk discounts any more, so a year of Premium will cost $72. Existing subscribers can keep their current pricing as long as they're subscribed before the change.
- When you have Reddit Premium, at the beginning of each month you will be given some amount of "Gold Coins". These Coins can be used to give "awards" to other users' posts.
- You can give 3 different types of awards to a post, which each cost a different number of Coins:
- Silver Award - costs the fewest number of Coins; adds a silver icon on the post; the author receives no further benefits
- Gold Award - costs more Coins; adds a gold icon on the post (same as current icon); the author receives some small number of Coins (not Premium)
- Super Gold Award - costs the most Coins; adds a "spectacular" icon on the post; the author receives a month of Reddit Premium
- Gold Coins will be purchasable in bundles separately from Premium, pricing not announced.
Today they released more info in /r/lounge (here's the post if you have reddit gold to be able to view it). The summary of the new post is:
- "Super Gold" has been renamed "Platinum"
- If you have any creddits, you have the choice to convert them to months of Premium membership before Sept. 10. If you don't, they'll be converted to 2000 Coins per creddit.
- You get 700 coins per month for having Premium.
- The awards that you can give to posts have these coin costs/benefits:
Award Coin Cost Benefits Silver 100 Coins Silver icon next to comment or post; a lingering sense of disappointment that you didn’t get Gold Gold 500 Coins Gold icon next to comment or post; additionally, recipient receives 100 Coins Platinum 1,800 Coins Platinum icon next to comment or post; recipient receives one month of Premium membership (which includes 700 Coins) And there will be the following "Coin Packs" available for purchase:
Price Point Coin Package Discount % What You Can Buy $1.99 500 Coins N/A 5 Silver Awards or 1 Gold Award $3.99 1,100 Coins 10% 11 Silver Awards or 2 Gold Awards $5.99 1,800 Coins 20% 18 Silver Awards, 3 Gold Awards, or 1 Platinum Award $19.99 7,200 Coins 43% 72 Silver Awards, 14 Gold Awards, or 4 Platinum Awards $99.99 40,000 Coins 59% 400 Silver Awards, 80 Gold Awards, or 22 Platinum Awards 52 votes -
The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people
14 votes -
There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
12 votes -
This is what filter bubbles actually look like
13 votes -
Danah Boyd - The messy fourth estate
5 votes -
Suspected Iranian influence operation leverages network of inauthentic news sites and social media targeting audiences in US, UK, Latin America, Middle East
12 votes -
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1
25 votes -
Reddit experiencing a site outage
10 votes -
Blind loyalty - How a social network is redefining the future of corporate culture
14 votes -
Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance
12 votes -
Facebook blunders its way through the world and deals with the consequences later. In Myanmar, that strategy has had deadly consequences.
12 votes -
Facebook bans 196 pages in Brazil, attempting to rein in abuse and disinformation
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How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
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Twitter puts Alex Jones's account in "read-only mode" for a week, so he can't tweet, retweet, or like content
11 votes -
This Panda Is Dancing
10 votes -
Deplatforming works
10 votes -
Microsoft threatened to terminate Gab's cloud hosting if it didn't remove two posts by a neo-Nazi
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Twitter says Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' It looks like that's not the case
13 votes -
The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn
21 votes -
Jeffrey Katzenberg raises $1 billion for short-form video venture
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Leaked white paper proposes Congressional regulation of social media
14 votes -
YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
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Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger
18 votes -
Facebook deletes InfoWars pages
20 votes -
How does Mastodon work?
14 votes -
Killing speech softly: How the world’s biggest tech companies are quietly censoring critical expression in the Middle East
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Reddit servers breached; full backup from 2007 (including hashed+salted passwords) obtained by attackers
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Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason
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538 shares largest dataset of Russian troll tweets, compiled by two professors at Clemson University
17 votes -
11,000 Wikileaks Twitter DMs have just been published for anyone to read
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On social media what filters do you have to block content? Any motivation beyond "not interested"?
On Tildes I don't have any filtered tags yet but I did unsubscribe from ~anime, ~books, ~food, ~games, ~movies, ~sports, and ~tv. Wow I just made that list and realized I cut out most of the fun...
On Tildes I don't have any filtered tags yet but I did unsubscribe from ~anime, ~books, ~food, ~games, ~movies, ~sports, and ~tv. Wow I just made that list and realized I cut out most of the fun groups... I'm not sure what that says about me haha. I unsubscribed from all of those because I either don't enjoy those things or if I do, I know what I like and don't have any inclination to discuss them.
Reddit is where I have the most things filtered out. Mostly entire subs from r/all but I have some users blocked too. Like poem_for_your_sprog. Don't get me wrong I like poems in the right context but it throws me off too much when I'm reading an askreddit thread and suddenly find myself reading a poem. A dumb pet peeve.
Facebook it's just random people blocked from showing on the newsfeed.
I have said "not interested" to videos on youtube more times than I would ever care to count. I'm not sure why but they have a really hard time giving me content I want to see. There's usually like 3 videos in the feed I'm down with and the rest is just garbage. They're good about not showing me things I said I'm not interested in but they can't seem to pinpoint what I actually want.
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A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
14 votes -
India looking to compel e-commerce, social media firms to store data locally
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How Facebook is undermining democracy - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan
5 votes -
It’s Rubens vs. Facebook in fight over artistic nudity
5 votes -
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
7 votes -
Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
35 votes -
Facebook's quarterly earnings show user growth hit record lows in Q2
19 votes -
Departing Facebook security officer's memo: "We need to be willing to pick sides"
6 votes