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Hey everyone, I built a mobile calendar app that makes it easy to share and follow events. As a gamer, one of the things I wanted to use it for was a gaming calendar. I'm thinking mainly game releases (maybe season starts in the cases of battle royal games), major tournaments, and console...

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/08/24/the-tiktok-exodus-how-an-albanian-town-was-emptied The TikTok exodus: how an Albanian town was emptied Bling-filled videos of life in Britain have spurred thousands of Albanians to leave. But some posts have an ulterior motive Aug 24th 2023 Share By...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/17/china-urged-to-tackle-online-racism-targeting-black-people China urged to tackle online racism targeting Black people Human Rights Watch says racist tropes ‘common’ across Chinese social media, and that platforms and government must act. The rights...

https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/07/nazi-symbols-and-child-pornography-found-in-german-police-chats Nazi symbols and child pornography found in German police chats By Una Hajdari Published on 07/08/2023 - 06:00 Another group within Germany's security structures has been found to be inclined...

BREAKING NEWS! As Twitter shoots itself in the foot with a rebrand this morning, TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out support for text posts. Although TikTok started off as a platform for short-form video, it later added support for images in an attempt to take on Instagram. It’s now...

https://www.neowin.net/news/admin-of-an-anarchist-mastodon-server-raided-by-fbi-insecure-user-data-gets-seized/#google_vignette Paul Hill · Jul 1, 2023 16:18 EDT Kolektiva Social When Elon Musk took over Twitter and started getting on people’s nerves, some users left to join Mastodon...

https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/ https://archive.is/xJev6 Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year...

TikTok owner’s Lemon8 has vaulted into one of America’s most popular apps It’s like Instagram meets Pinterest but with a connection to TikTok. Exhausted yet? Here’s what to know Political pressure continues to mount on TikTok, the super popular video app owned by China’s ByteDance. In the...

https://archive.is/UL4XG If you quote this post, spoiler the tweet you aren't commenting on.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2022/12/09/how-musk-made-vivaldi-build-a-mastodon-server-in-a-fortnight/? Barry Collins Contributor I am a consumer tech expert writing about Windows, PCs, laptops, Mac, broadband and more. Musk's Twitter takeover spurred Vivaldi into action AFP VIA...

If Twitter suddenly stops working, or dies a slow death due to features randomly going away and people leaving, what are the leading candidates to take its place :jbhmm: And can any of these alternatives combine the social/discussion aspect of Twitter with its capacity to quickly disseminate...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/19/twitter-emergencies/ By Reis Thebault , Brianna Sacks and Mark Berman November 19, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. EST Twitter has reportedly closed its offices and hundreds of employees have resigned in recent days. (George Nikitin/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)...

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9 Horrifying Facts From the Facebook Whistleblower's New 60 Minutes Interview Last week, the Wall Street Journal published internal research from Facebook showing that the social media company knows precisely how toxic its own product is for the people who use it. But tonight, we learned how...

Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop Sam Levin in Los Angeles @SamTLevin Wed 8 Sep 2021 10.06 EDT Los Angeles police officers survey a protest in downtown Los Angeles on 14 August. Photograph: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock...

I had to unfollow four different supposedly pro black pages today. They all posting Candace Owens. this just one of them. I know not to disregard a message because of the messenger, but Im done with these low key c00nservatives. All of them are anti mask. As well as other talking points...

Instagram is the worst social media network for mental health and wellbeing, according to a recent survey of almost 1,500 teens and young adults. While the photo-based platform got points for self-expression and self-identity, it was also associated with high levels of anxiety, depression...

What we know about Hive, the MySpace, Twitter, Instagram mashup social media app that exploded overnight TikTok, Clubhouse, Hive taking over for the 2020’s