Följare och vänner betyder mycket lite i sociala medier. Dvs i traditionella sociala medierna kontrollerade av företag med algoritmer för att gynna provocerande och inflammatoriskt innehåll. Anledningen till att följare och vänner betyder väldigt lite är att ett inlägg bara når till en liten del av följarna och vännerna.
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3. August 2026 Was folgt aus dem CSD-Attentat? Tugay Saraç war als Jugendlicher Islamist, heute gibt er an Schulen Workshops zu Queerness und Islam. Er sagt: Religiöser Fanatismus wird nicht ernst genommen. Direktlink Hier den Artikel weiter lesen...
Sobre los riesgos de contenido, contacto y conducta a través de TikTok
I was on the werewolf side of TikTok, minding my own business, when the algorithm decided I needed to see a woman crying because a barista wrote "Happy Holidays" on her cup. Not laughing about it. Crying.
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality. And yet here we are, still scrolling. This essay is an attempt to answer two questions: why is leaving so hard, and what does it look like when it finally becomes possible? Let's take the platforms one at a time, because each one has found its own distinctive way to be terrible. Meta is the empire that learned nothing. In 2018, we learne...
Experts say race and class factor heavily in perceptions of these gatherings, which are fueled by social media and can involve thousands.
Um Himmels Willen! Der Uhle treibt sich jetzt auch auf dieser Plattform für die Aufmerksamkeisspanne von Goldfischen, auch als TikTok bekannt, herum. Was will er denn dort? Ich mache es kurz, sonst wäre es kein "Shorty sagt". Also: Mal gucken, was es so gibt. Denn irgendwie gibt es unsagbar viele Streams von meiner Musik durch...
I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes apart, frame-by-frame, some AI-generated TikTok monstrosity purportedly placing the influencer in a fictional version of Medieval London conjured by...
Tiktok, seguirá transfiriendo datos más allá de la normativa de protección de datos de la UE.
and structural reasons Reddit discussions often feel higher quality than modern Instagram and TikTok
Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to evolve. Here's what's new for the video platform.
Why hasn’t video completely killed text-based social media, despite social platforms clearly favoring it? Simple: By its very nature, it excludes voices from the discussion.
A new ruling from a federal appeals court finds that Section 230 protections may not apply to algorithms like the one TikTok uses. That could (potentially) be a big problem for the internet.
From Bohemian Rhapsody to sneezing pandas -- why short-form video wins and three strategies to capture attention in fifteen seconds.
Short-form video might in fact be the next frontier for federated media. The dev behind a popular photo-sharing platform is diving in headfirst.
Last week was insane, hasn't it? Between Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp going down and Twitch's source code getting leaked online, it's a good reminder that all of the content that we create could be gone in an instant. If that happens, what then? The Facebook one kind of shook me a little bit personally. I have so much...