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26 votes
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Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as foreign actors
22 votes -
How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban
29 votes -
Grow slowly, stay small
38 votes -
EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US
14 votes -
Is YouTube's use of AI upscaling for Shorts unethical?
17 votes -
An AI company wants to clone me
9 votes -
I tried to build a WhatsApp bot. Meta banned me before it left the drawing board.
20 votes -
Strange YouTube watch-tracking behavior
Just looking for some indication that I'm not going a bit crazy here, but does anyone else get shown videos they've never seen before, indicating that the video has been partially watched? It...
Just looking for some indication that I'm not going a bit crazy here, but does anyone else get shown videos they've never seen before, indicating that the video has been partially watched?
It seems to be just on search results and recommendations and it picks random points in the video to be kick-off points for continuing.
If anyone has an explanation that'd be appreciated, as it almost feels like my watch history is getting mixed up with someone else's.
26 votes -
A Cloudflare outage is taking down large parts of the internet - X, ChatGPT and more affected
49 votes -
The platonic case against AI slop
19 votes -
Do you recommend any website to host a free sub-forum in Portuguese? Not Reddit.
I'm looking to host a small community in Portuguese. Reddit is not an option for me, but self-hosting is both expensive and outside of my abilities. I would also rather avoid Discord.
17 votes -
Posts vs. comments. Where do you fall and why?
I'd say that on Tildes as on other platforms, you see a lot more posts responding to a topic than you see comments on existing posts. I get it. Responding to a prompt with a thoughtful, top-level...
I'd say that on Tildes as on other platforms, you see a lot more posts responding to a topic than you see comments on existing posts.
I get it. Responding to a prompt with a thoughtful, top-level comment is expressive, can often be therapeutic and comes with the bonus of possible comments by others on your entry.
Comments on existing thoughts are less sexy and possibly less fulfilling because you're riffing off of another person's idea, but as a reader and a community member, seeing user to user interaction is the best part of a social network.
I'm a perennial commenter - at best because I love conversation, at worst, with the hope that I can digress from the mainline conversation.
Where do you fall?
*Edit: I've just learned the difference in terminology between a top level comment and a comment. Edited to avoid confusion.
21 votes -
It's time for Desert Bus for Hope 2025!
14 votes -
Facebook and Instagram are paradises for scammers, reveal Meta's internal documents
37 votes -
Danish man convicted of sharing nude scenes from copyrighted films and TV series on the social media site Reddit
23 votes -
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
53 votes -
Danish government has reached an agreement to implement a minimum age requirement of fifteen years old on certain social media platforms
12 votes -
Denmark eyes new law to protect citizens from AI deepfakes – if enacted, Danes would get the copyright over their own likeness
21 votes -
Windows 11 videos demonstrating account and hardware requirements bypass purged from YouTube creator's channel
44 votes -
What is happening to Japan?
52 votes -
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
77 votes -
YouTube has a new video player
30 votes -
Meta: AI chat interactions on Facebook and Instagram will be used for ad targeting
17 votes -
Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
49 votes -
Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s – PM Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration
45 votes -
Tech companies are finding out everything is political
33 votes -
AI slop is killing our channel
36 votes -
Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal
34 votes -
A better way to watch YouTube
21 votes -
New Jersey theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace as it shuts down
21 votes -
Why does this happen?
A photographer I knew passed away, and I was trying to see if there was any information. This was the top result I got on google. The part after the ellipses says “killed in a plane accident in...
A photographer I knew passed away, and I was trying to see if there was any information. This was the top result I got on google. The part after the ellipses says “killed in a plane accident in Pantanal.”
He did not die in the plane accident! That’s another piece of Brazilian news, about the architect Kongjian Yu. The search result is even tagged with Yu’s Sponge City/Cidade Esponja.
So why is this showing up for a post summary about José Bassit? There’s nothing in the post comments or the post itself saying anything like this.
14 votes -
I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened.
49 votes -
Mastodon now has a Quote Post feature
23 votes -
Three options to increase privacy on LinkedIn
11 votes -
Slow social media
25 votes -
Sweden's health minister has urged the EU to push ahead with social media restrictions for kids while insisting it be treated as a pressing matter
28 votes -
Reddit announces new limits on moderating large subreddits and for moderators to remove content sitewide
72 votes -
Farewell to the fediverse
26 votes -
Bluesky will comply with age verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi
18 votes -
Disabling Auto-Zoom in the YouTube app (iOS)
Hey y’all, YouTube recently decided to put a feature into the app which zooms in to fill the screen more and reduce the dark space. There’s apparently settings for the android app, but I can’t...
Hey y’all,
YouTube recently decided to put a feature into the app which zooms in to fill the screen more and reduce the dark space. There’s apparently settings for the android app, but I can’t seem to find any way to disable if for iOS. Does anyone have any suggestions? It’s incredibly annoying and distracting when watching videos.
14 votes -
Does anyone have a digg invite code I can get ?
I joined their waitlist last month and still didn't get an invite, now they even have mobile apps but still invite-only... so any chance I can get an invite code from someone here 👉👈. I just want...
I joined their waitlist last month and still didn't get an invite, now they even have mobile apps but still invite-only... so any chance I can get an invite code from someone here 👉👈. I just want to try and see what it's like
Edit: I didn't expect so many comments, I hope everyone gets an invite! but I just want to say, it seems it doesn't work the same way as tildes and from what I can tell, you need to be a "Groundbreaker" to create invites and only 2 invites can be created? (would appreciate if someone can clarify that in the comments) and I'm personally not able to create invites from my account unfortunately, otherwise I would've sent an invite to everyone who commented. :(
43 votes -
Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
15 votes -
Refusing LinkedIn's ID verification is costing me my job
A long, complicated story, summarized: (apart from Tildes, on which I lurk) I swore off all social media years ago. Then my job required that I have an account on LinkedIn. I reconsidered, and...
A long, complicated story, summarized: (apart from Tildes, on which I lurk) I swore off all social media years ago. Then my job required that I have an account on LinkedIn. I reconsidered, and attempted to make the least disclosive account possible in an effort to protect my privacy. Things aren't going well. Despite logging in with the correct credentials, on the same device, using the same browser; and with access to my signup email, and access to the phone I used to enroll, LinkedIn has flagged my account the second time I tried using it and now requires me to upload images of myself and my government ID to regain access to their cesspool. Are you familiar with their protocols and can share insights, so that if I start again I don't face the same problem?
I have read what LinkedIn says and I have read discussions on Reddit on the topic. LinkedIn says you can opt to "use your work email" or mail them an affidavit. These options were not given to me. Everyone else I have seen reporting facing this seems to have triggered the system by losing their login credentials or moving countries; what brought this upon me and can I avoid it?
- Is it that I use a VPN, and it may have routed through a different IP address on the second login?
- I use an email alias. Is LinkedIn purging accounts with email domains that offer aliases?
- Is it a result of clearing cookies?
- Is it easier to maintain a Google account (!) which LinkedIn allows as login without this ID thing coming up?
Please be gentle with your advice as I am kind of panicking.
54 votes -
Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York
31 votes -
Bluesky will block Mississippi IP addresses in response to its age assurance law
50 votes -
Revisiting Facebook
19 votes -
While Finnish students learn how to discern fact from fiction online, media literacy experts say AI-specific training should be guaranteed going forward
11 votes -
Social media probably can’t be fixed
38 votes -
US Supreme Court allows Mississippi social media age verification law to go into effect
25 votes