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9 votes
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AI horror - Who is Loab, the AI-generated apparition haunting our timelines?
4 votes -
The best Twitter alternatives
17 votes -
Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps
18 votes -
An idea how to monetize social software
I wrote the following as a Twitter thread first but I think this idea could work for Reddit/Tildes/Mastadon and would love to know what you folks think of it. Here is how I would monetize a social...
I wrote the following as a Twitter thread first but I think this idea could work for Reddit/Tildes/Mastadon and would love to know what you folks think of it.
Here is how I would monetize a social network that could work for Twitter.
First of all, don’t charge your most valuable users - the power users that create the content for you. Instead focus on the users that get more value from your system - the consumers of the content.
The idea is simple - introduce a small time delay before content gets seen from the time it is published. For example, on Twitter it could be 1 minute. On Reddit it could be 10 minutes.
Paid subscribers would have no delay. Importantly - lift the delay for the users that generate a lot of views.
You can do revenue share with your content creators in proportion to how much time paid subscribers spent on their content.
And you can also identify your most valuable audience - the paid subscribers. This will help prioritize content moderation decisions, identify abuse, and prioritize appeals.
The delay would allow you to prioritize which content needs to be indexed instantly (ie from creators that paid subscribers are following) and which you can process on a best effort basis - saving on production costs.
You can gift subscriptions to your friends and family.
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Alright, I finally want to jump ship and join Mastodon. Can anyone post some getting started guides?
As with many Twitter users, I'm finally at the point where I want to leave and join Mastodon. About a year ago I set up an account after seeing some people on Tildes talk about it, but I found it...
As with many Twitter users, I'm finally at the point where I want to leave and join Mastodon. About a year ago I set up an account after seeing some people on Tildes talk about it, but I found it confusing and ultimately closed the account. I want to give it another go, but I'm a bit confused about all the different instance options, what the practical differences are, and more. Are there any comprehensive getting started guides? Does it matter which instance I join? How did you choose for yourself?
30 votes -
Elon Musk bans remote work at Twitter, warns staff of “dire” economic outlook
16 votes -
Astronomer incorrectly suspended from Twitter by automatic moderation
6 votes -
Twitter’s SMS two-factor authentication is melting down
21 votes -
Twitter quietly drops $8 paid verification; “tricking people not OK,” Musk says
25 votes -
Hey Elon: Let me help you speed run the content moderation learning curve
33 votes -
Yishan Wong (ex-Reddit CEO) on moderation
15 votes -
How online mobs act like flocks of birds
4 votes -
The first release candidate of Mastodon 4.0 is now officially available for testing
5 votes -
Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex
22 votes -
First thing: Twitter sued by former staff as Elon Musk begins mass firing
15 votes -
Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification. And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired by Elon Musk.
27 votes -
YouTube’s Primetime Channels bring streaming movies and TV into the YouTube app
4 votes -
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi
29 votes -
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
43 votes -
Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
4 votes -
Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
35 votes -
Will Elon Musk ruin Twitter? That’s the wrong question.
6 votes -
Celebrities say they’re quitting Twitter as Elon Musk takes over: “I’m out of here”
10 votes -
Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show
17 votes -
A growing share of TikTok's adult users say they regularly get news on the site, bucking the trend on other social media platforms
7 votes -
r/Onlyfans101 mods are currently manipulating tons of NSFW subreddits
16 votes -
YouTube should charge for 4K. Hear me out.
13 votes -
Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler
24 votes -
XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works
4 votes -
Any Tilde Town members here?
A few years ago when I was new to tildes a typed tildes.com directly in the URL bar. I realized I'd forgotten the correct domain extension and did a web search for "tildes community" or something...
A few years ago when I was new to tildes a typed tildes.com directly in the URL bar. I realized I'd forgotten the correct domain extension and did a web search for "tildes community" or something similar.
One of the results was for tilde town . At the time I glanced over it and thought about joining but I never got around to it. Last July I somehow stumbled over it again and this time I applied to join.
It's a pretty cool place.
The idea is that it's a Linux server that each user gets an account on. You then ssh into it - and that's where the community lives!
They have a chat system, a forum system, microblogging that's private to that community, command line games (some of which are multi-player) and a bunch of other really neat features. Each user even gets a folder in their home directory that let's them serve up public web pages.
Technically they have about 2,000 registered users, but the number of actual active users seems to be similar to our community here.
The vibe reminds me a lot of what we have here except that tilde town is casual "slice of life" only and doesn't do news articals at all. Some of their forum posts are similar to our own, with posts for what people are reading and watching and what projects they are working on.
Ive enjoyed my time there so far and I'd encourage any one who's interested to check it out. My username over there is grendel84, stop by and say hi!
17 votes -
mastodon.technology shutdown
12 votes -
heating up some macking cheese in the michael wave
5 votes -
Does this button work? Investigating YouTube’s ineffective user controls
12 votes -
Off the Mark
3 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman discusses how he wants every subreddit to be its own media company and he wants to see money being exchanged from users to users and users to subreddits
35 votes -
During his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko claims Twitter only has live production environment that all engineers can access
@Benjamin Powers: Mudge walking through Twitter's construction - they only have live production environment, no test environment.
17 votes -
Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?
17 votes -
The next chapter for Learning on YouTube
7 votes -
LinkedIn users are being scammed of millions of dollars by fake connections
7 votes -
Quora+ Program: A case study in ruining a perfectly functional community forum and online information resource
10 votes -
How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
9 votes -
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies
13 votes -
Norway wants Facebook fined for illegal data transfers – European regulators are finalizing a decision blocking Meta from transferring data to the US
6 votes -
OnlyFans bribed Meta employees to put thousands of porn stars on terror watchlist, suits claim
17 votes -
Facebook helped arrest a 17-year-old for having an abortion
13 votes -
Reddit launches NFTs
30 votes -
The armchair psychologist who ticked off YouTube
1 vote -
TikTok: Life on the algorithm
4 votes -
The notorious hacker who’s trying to fix social media
13 votes