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Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media's crisis of legitimacy

In the 2018 documentary “The Cleaners,” a young man in Manila, Philippines, explains his work as a content moderator: “We see the pictures on the screen. You then go through the pictures and delete those that don’t meet the guidelines. The daily quota of pictures is 25,000.” As he speaks,…

The Conversation

Posting RSS Feed to BlueSky

I'd like our posts to be available on BlueSky as well as on Twitter and Mastodon. Is there a good service that will automatically post from an RSS feed (or a Twitter or Mastodon account) to BlueSky? Thanks!

Reason

Testing Automatic Feeding to Our Mastodon Account (@VolokhC@Liberdon.Com) via MastoFeed

I just learned, several months after it happened, that our automatic feeding to Mastodon stopped earlier this year, because the auto-feed service (moa.party) shut down. I'm now trying MastoFeed.org, and this is my test post. UPDATE: Looks like it's working.

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Leaving X can be a rewarding experience—but nobody’s matching Twitter’s ideological diversity

Bluesky and Mastodon offer a great experience now, but they’re still not quite as useful as Twitter once was.

Fortune

Scientists leave X as platform changes character

A recently conducted survey by the journal Nature has shown that researchers are leaving the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter)

The Hindu

X is accused of slowing down content from sites Elon Musk doesn’t like

Users were reportedly forced to wait longer to view links to The New York Times and Instagram

Evening Standard

Twitter ‘delays’ access to news websites that drew ‘Musk’s ire’, later revokes

Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, had reportedly delayed access to links to the New York Times, Reuters, and its rival apps and websites, including Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack – allegedly targeting companies that have “drawn the ire” of Musk, the Washington Post reported.

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10 classic metal songs we can't believe don't get played live

Iron Maiden's only number 1 single, an AC/DC classic and title-tracks aplenty - we're amazed these songs haven't been played more

Metal Hammer

How to verify your Threads profile on Mastodon

Want to know how to verify your Threads profile on your Mastodon profile page? We'll guide you through the process.

TechRadar

New free Threads upgrade ties it even more closely to Instagram

These aren't the upgrades many users were waiting for, but they're important and significant too

Want to use Mastodon on your Apple Watch? Try Stomp

If you’ve been wanting to use Mastodon on your Apple Watch, Stomp is a great way of doing just that.

iMore

Threads is getting its most wanted upgrade in the next few weeks

Two essential upgrades are coming to Threads to further torment Twitter

"Some Kind Of Monster? It was all a bit Spinal Tap." Bill Bailey on the rock and metal albums that have defined his life

From Mastodon and Opeth's prog metal majesty to Metallica going off the rails with St Anger, these are the albums that have sountracked Bill Bailey's life

Metal Hammer

Elon Musk's controversial AI plan has artists jumping ship from Twitter

Could BlueSky benefit from the X exodus?

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The Hindu

Today’s Cache | Musk threatens to sue researchers; BBC tries out Mastodon; India’s premium smartphone shipments grow

News snippets for X social media platform threatening to sue a non-profit for research critical of its leadership. BBC experimenting with Mastodon, and India's premium smartphone segment growing 112% YoY in Q2 2023.

Fortune

Inside Bluesky CEO’s 10 days of silence

Bluesky, the Twitter rival, faced its first major crisis when a racist username went unchecked, leading investors to push for an apology that took the CEO 10 days to formulate.

Evening Standard

Mastodon: Twitter rival used to host child sexual abuse content, study finds

Stanford University researchers found almost 2,000 posts using child sexual abuse material hashtags on the decentralised social network

Threads gets another free app update to welcome Elon Musk’s exes

The biggest rival to the service formerly known as Twitter teases big new features

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Windows Central

Here's where Twitter found its new X logo

Elon Musk has rebranded Twitter's logo from the old blue bird symbol to a new X logo. Here's where he seems to have found the inspiration for the new "X."

Metal Hammer

A beginner's guide to sludge metal in five essential albums

From the Louisiana swamps to Washington State and beyond, these five albums defined sludge metal's history

Metal Hammer

10 metal b-sides and bonus tracks so perfect that they should have been classics

These bangers by Metallica, Linkin Park and more never got an album or single release – but, in hindsight, they really deserved one

WhatToWatch

Extraordinary Portraits season 3: release date, interview and everything we know

Bill Bailey is your new host as Extraordinary Portraits season 3 celebrates 75 years of the NHS.

The Guardian - UK

Everything I hate is on Twitter – how can the alternatives compete?

When Elon Musk took over the platform, the downward slide was depressing. But then, the horror may always have been a big part of its appeal, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Metal Hammer

Watch Mastodon portray violent cinema snacks in the most metal movie opening of all time

Mastodon performed a raging extreme metal song as animated characters in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie – and stole the entire show.

The Guardian - AU

TechScape: With 100 million users, is Threads on course to finish off Twitter?

Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk’s platform in the dust quite yet

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