- 10 years ago Sticky: Reddit and /t/socialmedia
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+35 +3Reddit may force Apollo and third-party clients to shut down, asking for $20M per year API fee
Following Twitter’s move to shut down third-party apps earlier this year, it looks like Reddit may be the next platform...
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+27 +1Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20 million-a-year bill for Apollo
Reddit is an enormously popular website, but the official design has always needed some reworking. This is even more true of the mobile experience, which didn't have a mobile app until 2016, and even then, not everyone's a fan of it. The site's popularity rose partly thanks to third-party developers filling in the gaps with pre-existing and better mobile apps.
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I can't get my Hubski account activated. What's going on?
I've emailed the admin and haven't gotten a response in the last 4 days. I can't post and I can't comment (under comments it says "account not activated", along with "click on email activation link to participate" if I hover my cursor over it) I've also sent them a PM. Should I just wait longer for a response? Am I on some sort of black list? Are the admins being lazy and are not maintaining the site? What's going on? This is on hubski.com.
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+20 +4Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes
From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.
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+38 +4Supreme Court rejects lawsuit that sought to hold Reddit responsible for hosting child pornography | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a case from a victim of sex trafficking who sought to hold Reddit, an online platform, responsible for hosting images of child pornography on the website.
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+40 +5What on Earth is the fediverse and why does it matter?
Since its launch in October 2016, microblogging social network Mastodon has been gaining ground, reaching 1 million users as of December 2017. To many it's the anti-Twitter. Though much like it in appearance and feature-set, Mastodon places greater emphasis on safety and privacy.
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+25 +3r/RedditAlternatives
r/RedditAlternatives: A subreddit for cataloging, dispersing and sharing all reddit alternatives out there.
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+21 +3Social media is making us stupid, but we can fix it
Social media distorts the mental models we build of the world, degrading our collective intelligence and our ability to make good decisions.
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+31 +6Bluesky Social just took a big open-source step forward
The hot new social network from Twitter's founders has open-sourced its client software. Here's why that matters.
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+29 +3Montana will offically ban the use of TikTok for all its citizens starting January 1, 2024
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed the bill to ban TikTok across the state into law today, but that law will almost certainly be challenged by TikTok owner ByteDance in court.
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+30 +3YouTube algorithm sends gun videos to kids as young as 9, study finds
YouTube says it works hard to protect children, but the researchers say the material could traumatize vulnerable kids or send them down dark roads of radicalization and extremism.
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+22 +5Indians harassed by spam calls flood on WhatsApp
Many users have been complaining about receiving calls from unknown international numbers.
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+22 +5A Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas Dickolas”
The tweet appeared on Sunday. By Monday, the book was in Amazon's Top 100—and rising.
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+9 +1The Evolution of Social Media Share Buttons on Blogs
Gone are the days when bloggers were satisfied with a simple text link to share their blog posts on social media. With the rise of social…
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+28 +6WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told
‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawn
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+25 +1TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account
London-based reporter Cristina Criddle says it was "chilling" to learn her data had been accessed.
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+30 +4I tried Bluesky Social and it's basically a far friendlier Twitter (for now)
Here's how you can try the latest -- and maybe greatest -- Twitter alternative contender, too.
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+21 +3Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on monetizing youth data
Meta has 30 days to respond to allegations about its Messenger Kids product.




















