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I'm a causal gamer who owns a Ps4 and plays Gta Online
Casey NewtonIt's Hard Fork Friday! This week, @jnicas helps us break down the story of X and Brazil. THEN: we go full founder mode to discuss Founder Mode. And finally, teachers and students call in to share their opinions on phones in schools https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/podcasts/hardfork-x-banned-founder-mode.html
John Mastodon 
« On peut tromper mille fois mille personnes, mais on ne peut pas tromper John Mastodon... » #JohnMastodon #Mastodon #FunFacts #Bot
Blaze (he/him)Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself - Sopuli
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19466667 [https://lemmy.world/post/19466667] > Money, Mods, and Mayhem > > The Turning Point > > In 2024, Reddit is a far cry from its scrappy startup roots. With over 430 million monthly active users and more than 100,000 active communities, it’s a social media giant. But with great power comes great responsibility, and Reddit is learning this lesson the hard way. > > The turning point came in June 2023 when Reddit announced changes to its API pricing. For the uninitiated, API stands for Application Programming Interface, and it’s basically the secret sauce that allows third-party apps to interact with Reddit. The new pricing model threatened to kill off popular third-party apps like Apollo, whose developer Christian Selig didn’t mince words: “Reddit’s API changes are not just unfair, they’re unsustainable for third-party apps.” > > Over 8,000 subreddits went dark in protest. > > The blackout should have reminded Reddit’s overlords of a crucial fact: Reddit’s success was built on the backs of its users. The platform had cultivated a sense of ownership among its community, and now that community was biting back. > > One moderator summed it up perfectly: “We’re the ones who keep this site running, and we’re being ignored.” >
Crypto NewsOne week later: X’s future in Brazil on the line as Supreme Court reviews ban - With Lula supporting Moraes and the Bar Association challenging the deci... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/one-week-later-brazil-s-future-with-x-on-the-line-as-supreme-court-reviews-ban #alexandredemoraes #freespeech #democracy #elonmusk #brazil #ban #x
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Colt Gray murders 4—arrested alive
Dylan Roof murders 9—arrested alive
Payton Gendron murders 10—arrested alive
Nikolas Cruz murders 17—arrested alive
Patrick Crusius murders 23—arrested alive
Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner—all unarmed & innocent—killed immediately
While Black people are only half as likely to be armed as are white people—police kill Black people at 3.23X the rate as white people. A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect
Jason Yip
Martin HollandAdvertisers plan to withdraw from X in record numbers
A record number of firms plan to cut advertising spending on #X next year because of concerns that extreme content on the platform could damage their brands, dealing another blow to the financial fortunes of Elon Musk’s #SocialMedia company.
tter #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/05/business/advertisers-x-withdrawal/index.html
br00t4cThe Lights Go Down on Stan Twitter
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/brazil-x-ban-stan-accounts/679721/
jrm4IMHO Twitter and Mastodon are still just about tied (and each have their strengths and weaknesses) for useful social media sites;
What many here miss as they whinge about the crapface owner of Twitter is that it still has a decent "immune system" type response.
Eg, right now the ONLY thing I'm seeing over there is massive amounts of exposure of Russian owned US influencers on youtibe et al.