TikTok expands #BookTok bestseller lists across Europe and the UK

TikTok's also launching a new #BookTok label that can be added to books in stores.

Social Media Today
Tubi And TikTok Launch Incubator To Help Creators Make Long-Form Series

Fox-owned streaming service Tubi has teamed up with TikTok to help the latter's talent expand their work to long-form series.

Deadline

“Our failure to remember that the mega-platforms are just intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted but very human weirdos is a failure of accountability, but our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve.” Erin Kissane

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Against the dark forest

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

wreckage/salvage
Reddit loses Reddio trademark case in Singapore

Reddit has lost its bid to block Singapore firm Reddio's trademark registration after a tribunal ruled the names were dissimilar. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times
Instagram adds ability to pause Reels with a single tap

So rather than muting a Reel when you tap, it will now pause the playback.

Social Media Today
Some creators don’t see immediate value in Instagram’s controversial ‘Shop the Look’ AI test

Instagram's Shop the Look test didn't ask for creators' consent when it launched. Creators have learned a few lessons from it.

Digiday
YouTube now asks viewers to detect generative AI slop when rating videos

Viewers may soon have more influence on the visibility and monetization of YouTube videos. The platform is requesting that some users label a growing number of suspicious creations as AI slop. However, the company may also be seeking more data to improve its generative AI models.

Notebookcheck
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest

Meta’s flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta’s broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake.

WIRED

TechCrunch: Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp. “Mastodon is making changes in the hopes of making its social networking service more appealing and easier to use, especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads. On Thursday, the decentralized social networking software maker said it’s redesigning a key part […]

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TechCrunch: Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp

TechCrunch: Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp. “Mastodon is making changes in the hopes of making its social networking service more app…

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