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12 votes
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Reddit has banned r/watchpeopledie
An undoubtedly horrific subreddit that always seemed to comply with reddit TOS and the admins has been banned, probably related to the NZ shooting video that was in the subreddit yesterday until...
An undoubtedly horrific subreddit that always seemed to comply with reddit TOS and the admins has been banned, probably related to the NZ shooting video that was in the subreddit yesterday until it was taken down by admins. Looks like they're getting ahead of MSM discovering that this shit exists on the site?
Will add any updates here.
r/gore is gone as well.
From @nacho:
It's not ahead of controversy, it's in response to the Reuters article calling out /r/watchpeopledie.
Members of a group called “watchpeopledie” on internet discussion board Reddit, for example, discussed how to share the footage even as the website took steps to limit its spread.
Reddit - which has over 20 investors, including Conde Nast owner Advance Publications - said it was actively monitoring the situation in New Zealand.
“Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy,” it said.
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Facebook, Axios and NBC paid to manage their reputation on Wikipedia
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One year in, Facebook’s big algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated — and very engaged! — News Feed
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Telegram gets three million new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
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Reddit has become a battleground of alleged Chinese trolls
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Facebook’s News Feed era is now officially over: What Chris Cox’s departure means for the company
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Tumblr suffers 150 million drop in traffic after porn ban
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PS5 leak exposes laziness in PC tech channels
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TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it
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Thoughts on the Fediverse?
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse style model of social media/websites in general? If you are unfamiliar with it, https://peertube.social/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d...
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse style model of social media/websites in general? If you are unfamiliar with it, https://peertube.social/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d and https://peertube.social/videos/watch/d9bd2ee9-b7a4-44e3-8d65-61badd15c6e6
EDIT: Punctuation
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Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere
15 votes -
Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook
17 votes -
YouTube is rolling out a feature that shows fact-checks when people search for sensitive topics
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Facebook only cares about privacy because it has to
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Mark Zuckerberg: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
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What would you want in a Stackoverflow/Quora competitor?
My friend was rambling about making his own Stackoverflow/quora clone, but with some random specific features. Note that this project would probably compete directly with Quora, but have multiple...
My friend was rambling about making his own Stackoverflow/quora clone, but with some random specific features.
Note that this project would probably compete directly with Quora, but have multiple subcomminties like Stackoverflow/Reddit. We think taking programming FAQs from SO is too uphill of a battle to focus on.
What are some great ideas?
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Are certain message boards like Tildes, Reddit etc. social engineering?
The active development of Tildes and the feedback/discussions about features and mechanisms had me thinking. Is the conscious design and moderation of forums for public discourse a manner of...
The active development of Tildes and the feedback/discussions about features and mechanisms had me thinking. Is the conscious design and moderation of forums for public discourse a manner of social engineering?
I know the connotation of social engineering is usually negative, as in manipulating people for politics. But it's a double edged sword.
Most recently I was reading this feedback on removing usernames from link topics and while reading the comments I was thinking of how meta this all is. It's meta-meta-cognition in that we (well, by far the actual developers) are designing the space within which we execute our discourse and thinking. To paraphrase the above example: user identification can bias one's own impulse reaction to content, either to a beneficial or detrimental end, so how do we want this?
The moderation-influenced scenario is a bit more tricky because it can become too top-heavy, as in one prominent example many of us came from recently... But I think with a balance of direction from the overlords (jk, there is also public input as mentioned) and the chaos of natural public discourse, you could obtain an efficient environment for the exchange of ideas.
I'm not sure what my stimulating question would be for you all, so just tell me what you think.
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‘Is my absence from social media a red flag?’
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The life of a comment moderator for a right-wing website
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Memes are our generation's protest art
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Inside Facebook’s war on hate speech: An exclusive embed with Facebook’s shadow government
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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YouTube bans comments on videos of children
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The small, small world of Facebook’s anti-vaxxers
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RIP Culture War Thread - /r/slatestarcodex's regular thread for debating polarizing issues showed the difficulties and risks of hosting those conversations
39 votes -
Facebook's terms for its Patreon-like "Fan Subscriptions" feature include taking up to 30% of revenue, offering free trial subscriptions, and a perpetual license to all content
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YouTube and demonetization: The hammer and nail of content moderation
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The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
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The trauma floor - The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
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YouTube just demonetized anti-vaccination channels
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On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight
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Nine months ago, Facebook promised a new privacy tool that's nowhere to be found. Sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of dealing with privacy concerns.
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What would you want in a Reddit app?
My friend and I are considering finishing a prototype of a Reddit app. We've already agreed to the following features on first release (if we keep going). Similar urls to current Reddit website...
My friend and I are considering finishing a prototype of a Reddit app. We've already agreed to the following features on first release (if we keep going).
- Similar urls to current Reddit website (so you can change the URL to reddit.com and see the same page)
- voting, commenting, posting selftexts and links
- Directly uploading image posts may come later if it looks complicated
- Masstagger integrated.
- Dark theme (other options in later releases)
- Primary use case: desktop and mobile web.
- Performance first. Reddit's 1 minute load time on default mobile, missing/broken features on i.reddit.com/.compact, and a few tiny complaints on the desktop site are the primary reasons we are considering writing this app. Native is not in our collective skillsets or radar, so we're going to go the extra mile to make sure the app respects both your time and your battery where possible. We did do some research and found that Reddit has actually been negligent in this regard on mobile web, meanwhile we have years of experience in the subject.
- Mailbox (send/receive messages, orange icon on new message/comment reply/thread reply).
- No infinite scroll
- View source JSON of comments/posts.
What are some features/ideas that members of this community would really like in a Reddit app?
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Highlights and transcript from the first of Mark Zuckerberg's "public discussions on the future of technology and society"
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Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly
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The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
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The Verge is sending out copyright strikes to people who criticized their PC build
For those of you not in the loop, the Verge created a PC build guide back in September, and it was...bad, to put it lightly. They took down the original video after a storm of criticism, but this...
For those of you not in the loop, the Verge created a PC build guide back in September, and it was...bad, to put it lightly. They took down the original video after a storm of criticism, but this guy reuploaded it, if you want to see it.
Kyle (aka Bitwit) created a response video to it, which got copyright striked (which is more severe than a claim and has to be done by a human, unlike content ID claims), in addition to ReviewTechUSA. Ironically, the Verge published an article about abuse of the copyright system just 3 days ago (2 days when the videos were taken down yesterday).
The Verge should have taken more responsibility to begin with, now that the dust have settled they seem bent on reminding everyone how bad their video was.
Edit: Bauke pointed out Kyle's video is back up! This is not because the Verge retracted their claim, but because YouTube actually had a human review it and determine it was fair use (which usually isn't the case from what I've heard).
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If Facebook wants to stop the spread of anti-vaxxers, it could start by not taking their ad dollars
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Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
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Maintaining trust and safety at Discord with over 200 million people
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Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted how difficult it is to follow a conversation on Twitter
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Reddit Transparency Report 2018
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Reddit raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation - interview with Steve Huffman
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Inside the secret Facebook war for Mormon hearts and minds - What happens when social media manipulation targets religious faith?
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A profile of Alex Stamos, former security chief at Yahoo and Facebook who was at ground zero of major cyberattacks and Russian election interference
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The Knight Foundation commissioned a study to analyze bot accounts that spread fake news on Twitter. This is what they found.
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Reddit is raising another $150 million to $300 million in venture capital
53 votes