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38 votes
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The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
50 votes -
How Quora died - The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
37 votes -
How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
80 votes -
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege
24 votes -
Down and to the right: Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
80 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg delivers on promise to pour 'gasoline' on Threads growth as the platform regains users while X shrinks
21 votes -
Australia tells dating apps to improve safety standards to protect users from sexual violence
12 votes -
We're all living on r/MadeMeSmile's Internet Now
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In Threads’ dwindling engagement, social media’s flawed hypothesis is laid bare
17 votes -
Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
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User accountability and complicated technologies
I've been thinking about the arguments that are increasingly common when dealing with tech: "it's too complicated" and "I just want something that works". My father gifted a used computer to me...
I've been thinking about the arguments that are increasingly common when dealing with tech: "it's too complicated" and "I just want something that works".
My father gifted a used computer to me and my brother when we were kids. Ours to use, ours to take care. He would pay for the eventual screw up, but we had to walk several blocks carrying the tower to get assistance.
I messed up a lot over the years, mostly because I wanted to explore the little that I knew and learn more. I had some magazines that expected everything to go well if instructions were followed and no access to internet forums to ask for help. I was limited to just one language as well. I had to find a way out. Nowadays things are much more simple and really just work, until they don't and I can't really fix them.
In this world, what people can do is complain. Or offer a report of how things went wrong and wait patiently. It's not even that common for people in general to just go back to the version that worked. There's no version, only the app we use or can't use and it's not our responsibility any kind of maintenance.
I have to confess I was going in another direction when I started, but things are really limited from a consumer's point of view. In part, it's our fault for not wanting to deal with the burden of knowledge, it inevitably takes the control away from us, but big tech really approves and incentives this behavior.
As with so many problems I see in the world, education is the solution. And educating ourselves might be the only dependable option.
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Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline
121 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg announces that there has been over five million signups to Meta's Threads in the first four hours
61 votes -
In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
9 votes -
Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast
33 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 -
Telegram celebrates 700M users and introduces Telegram Premium
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Telegram founder says over seventy million new users joined during Facebook outage
15 votes -
TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
18 votes -
Roiled by election, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth
12 votes -
Dear user
16 votes -
What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out
16 votes -
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
16 votes -
Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices
15 votes -
In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy
19 votes -
Telegram gets three million new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
7 votes -
Patreon CEO says the company's generous business model is not sustainable as it sees rapid growth
36 votes -
TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in downloads last month
14 votes -
DuckDuckGo usage is growing fast
63 votes -
Facebook's quarterly earnings show user growth hit record lows in Q2
19 votes -
Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers
7 votes -
People increased Facebook usage after Cambridge Analytica scandal
9 votes