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18 votes
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The Vtuber industry: Corporatization, labor, and kawaii
10 votes -
A modest proposal: Just log off
18 votes -
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage
25 votes -
Reddit will shut down Reddit Gifts and Secret Santa at the end of 2021
34 votes -
How Twitter turned Kimmy Schmidt into a ‘KKK Queen’
14 votes -
Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this
17 votes -
Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians
20 votes -
Best way to consume YouTube without the algorithmic results?
I'd love to get a passable alternative interface to YouTube that just shows me what I'm subscribed to, a search bar, and nothing else. Does this exist as a userscript or alternate site? Edit: My...
I'd love to get a passable alternative interface to YouTube that just shows me what I'm subscribed to, a search bar, and nothing else. Does this exist as a userscript or alternate site?
Edit:
My current solution is to have my YouTube bookmark go directly to my subscriptions listing. I also have my ad blocker cut out the recommendations feed on the side. It works okay but maybe there's a better solution out there.
This is the ad block rule:
www.youtube.com##.ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer www.youtube.com##.ytd-guide-entry-renderer[title=Explore] www.youtube.com##.ytd-guide-entry-renderer[title=Home]
18 votes -
Twitter may be working on Twitter Blue, a subscription service that would cost $2.99 per month
14 votes -
Scroll has been acquired by Twitter
4 votes -
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
13 votes -
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
26 votes -
Twitter has acquired Scroll, a subscription for news sites, and intends to integrate it into their own upcoming subscription service
11 votes -
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
14 votes -
The big business of manifesting money
3 votes -
Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch
7 votes -
Clubhouse - The social media app keeping Iranians up all night
4 votes -
Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
15 votes -
Reddit announces "Reddit Talk," its clone of Clubhouse
23 votes -
Mask off
26 votes -
Is content moderation a dead end?
19 votes -
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account
11 votes -
Why do people follow social media from those presenting a perfect life when it makes them feel inadequate?
I've never been one to follow much social media - certainly not the kind that is just a (almost certainly fake) presentation of a perfect life. Someone's highlight reel. But I did catch myself on...
I've never been one to follow much social media - certainly not the kind that is just a (almost certainly fake) presentation of a perfect life. Someone's highlight reel. But I did catch myself on the other side of this. I spent hours on some days baking or cooking specifically to flex on people with well-crafted photos of the finished food. I still enjoyed it, but once I realized what I was doing I started cooking much more reasonably difficult dishes - so I'm sure it was motivated by a wish to instill envy in others.
So I think I understand that side of the equation. But I had a more or less captive audience (a Slack #food channel). Can anyone speak from the side of the willing consumer? The avid subscriber?
14 votes -
Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page
6 votes -
Discord will start designating entire servers as NSFW, and prevent all under-18 users from accessing them, as well as all users on iOS
27 votes -
Linus Tech Tips accidentally became a top 1% OnlyFans creator
19 votes -
Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
18 votes -
I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
24 votes -
Trio | Social video optimized for threes
10 votes -
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
29 votes -
Facebook makes it easier for users to see News Feed stories in chronological order
8 votes -
Facebook built the perfect platform for Covid vaccine conspiracies
9 votes -
Amazon's Twitter army was handpicked for "great sense of humor" leaked document reveals
18 votes -
YouTube experimenting with removal of public dislike count
@YouTube: 👍👎 In response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count. If you're part of this small experiment, you might spot one of these designs in the coming weeks (example below!). pic.twitter.com/aemrIcnrbx
23 votes -
Reddit hires its first chief financial officer as it prepares for an IPO
31 votes -
"Why is this subreddit private?" or why some large subreddits are protesting the censorship of discussions about a reddit admin's ties to pedophilia.
38 votes -
Reddit will introduce the option for new users to add their gender identity to their accounts when signing up
21 votes -
A comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin, both developed by ByteDance
5 votes -
Twitter: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
14 votes -
Reddit announces online presence indicators
67 votes -
YouTube can now warn creators about copyright issues before videos are posted
15 votes -
Popular female biker in Japan revealed to be fifty-year-old uncle using FaceApp
43 votes -
Teen Vogue editor resigns after fury over racist tweets
13 votes -
A progress update on LinkLonk - a trust based news aggregator
Hey everyone, I launched my little project LinkLonk here on Tildes back in December and wanted to tell you how it has been going and get your feedback/suggestions. New changes since the launch:...
Hey everyone,
I launched my little project LinkLonk here on Tildes back in December and wanted to tell you how it has been going and get your feedback/suggestions.
New changes since the launch:
- The temporary accounts now automatically get deleted after 30 days of inactivity. I didn't have the deletion logic at the time of the launch, but had it implemented about 30 days after launch. Automatic account deletion is quite destructive - removes the account from the database (thank goodness for foreign keys and cascade deletes) and from Firebase Authentication. I'm happy that there were nobugs when I ran it the first time.
- In addition to submitting external links you can now create text posts. The posts are Markdown-formatted (similar to Tildes). One novel thing is that you can post "anonymously". The database has a record of who the author is so the author can delete/edit their post, it's just the name is not show next to the post.
- Comments - each item has a comment section. The comments are ranked based on how much you trust the people who upvoted each comment (as opposed to being pure popularity). This is the same ranking system that is used to rank the "For you" page, but now applied to comments.
- Unlike Tildes, the comments have a downvote button. The downvote does not bury the comment for everyone else. Instead, it makes your trust in upvotes of people who upvoted that comment go lower. So the downvote button effects what you see, not what others see. It is much harder to abuse that button that way. For that reason I feel much more comfortable putting it there. However, there is a second order effect. If you downvote a comment that someone else already downvoted - then you will trust the downvotes of that person. When they downvote some other comment - then it will rank lower for you. In a sense they earn your trust to moderate content for you by identifying comments you don't want to see.
In terms of users, there have been 260 user records created (some from my shameless plug comments on HackerNews). Of those, ~45 rated something - excluding those that were temporary accounts and were deleted. And I think we have 2 regularly active users (excluding myself). In my mind I had 10 as the number of active users that I was hoping to get by the end of 2021. At this rate we may reach it.
I was pleasantly surprised that there have been no misbehaving users. I didn't need to remove any content even once. This lead me to constantly postpone the implementation of a content reporting system. I hope it stays this way for a long time.
The whole idea of a trust based recommendation system is based on having someone to trust. Right now it is the RSS feeds that are generating most of the content recommendations for the active users. But ideally it would be mostly users recommending content to users. I have two priorities for the near future:
- Make the "single-player" experience better so the active users find value already. As an example, I added full-text search through items you liked
- Find more users to improve the "multi-player" experience. One option is to submit a "Show HN:" post on HackerNews. But you can only do it once and I'm not sure I'm ready to use that shot yet.
What do you think I should do next on these two fronts?
If you would like to give LinkLonk a try register with code "tildes" at https://linklonk.com/register. Feel free to comment on this post: https://linklonk.com/item/6347369602224750592
17 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less
10 votes -
Clubhouse cured my imposter syndrome
8 votes -
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
10 votes -
History of 4chan
7 votes -
Urbit: A Personal Identity Server
6 votes