Tootfinder

X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn (Jason Parham/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/x-bot-purge-wipes-out-secret-porn-feeds/

X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
The platform’s large-scale crackdown on automated accounts is also impacting people who’ve spent years curating niche porn on secret X accounts.

Ein bisschen enttäuschend, dass #ardsounds keine #rss Feeds für die dortigen Podcasts anbietet (https://hilfe.ard.de/ar…

Meta plans to expand using off-platform data, such as online purchases, to personalize content feeds and AI responses; it was previously used just to serve ads (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/946744/meta-website-activity-personalize-feeds

Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
Meta will soon start using data shared by other businesses, such as the games you play or the purchases you’ve made, to personalize its feeds across Instagram and Facebook.

Mit #60Sekunden wollte ich digitale Themen, Medienkritik und Politik in algorithmische Feeds drücken. Jetzt pausiert das Projekt vorläufig — nicht wegen fehlender Reichweite, sondern weil die Produktionslogik der Plattformen selbst zum Problem wird. Abonnement von CapCut zu teuer - keine Alternativen gefunden. Schade. Hätte gerne weitergemacht

@… https://feeds.feedburner.com/PublicoRSS

After using Tapestry & Reeder streams for the last week or such,
I got a confirmation for something I suspected.
When combining social media (in my case Mastodon, Bluesky) with RSS feeds, it became obvious how much volume comes from social media and how little it actually fits my interests.
The overlap with RSS feeds it's not immensely different, but the volume is much lower and feels less overwhelming.

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Danke

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre

Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds

heise | Stillere Ströme: Feedreader Current im Test
Der Newsflut aus dem Web Herr werden: Current präsentiert RSS-Feeds als ruhigen Nachrichtenfluss und setzt sich so von klassischen Readern ab. Ein Test.
https://www.

Stillere Ströme: Feedreader Current im Test
Der Newsflut aus dem Web Herr werden: Current präsentiert RSS-Feeds als ruhigen Nachrichtenfluss und setzt sich so von klassischen Readern ab. Ein Test.

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre

Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds

I don’t get into the Bluesky vs Mastodon debate. I instead use both platforms. If you do as well, might I suggest Indigo by @…? Get your feeds together in one app and react/engage with posts.

Meta plans to expand the use of off-platform data, such as e-commerce purchases, from serving ads to personalize content feeds and AI responses (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/946744/meta-website-activity-personalize-feeds

Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
Meta will soon start using data shared by other businesses, such as the games you play or the purchases you’ve made, to personalize its feeds across Instagram and Facebook.

Bluesky stellt KI-Assistenten „Attie“ für eigene Social-Feeds vor
Mit "Attie" testet Bluesky KI als Werkzeug für mehr Nutzerkontrolle und rückt zugleich sein offenes Protokoll  in den Fokus.
https…

Mela is listening to a podcast: The Cost of A Childhood Online - The Dream- Little Everywhere - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dream/id1435743296?uo=4 -

@… bringt mich auf Ideen … so richtig lange bin ich nie bei Feeds geblieben. Werde aber mal dem Vivaldi Browser eine Chance geben, mich zum Feeds abonnieren (und lesen) zu bewegen.

Not a privacy tool, but I love #protopage for an at-a-glace overview of your RSS feeds:
#rss

So…neat thing about #IndigoApp?
Now that I have a consolidated Mastodon BlueSky timeline?
They blend together REALLY well.
My 2 personally curated, non-algorithmic feeds are compatible.
That’s kinda neat.
Downside? That thing I mentioned about ❤️ keeping my reading place?
I’m like 4k behind. 😂

from my link log —
Kill the newsletter!
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
saved 2020-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/L7RVB.html

Well made , integrates nicely with both Mastodon and Bluesky, #Mastodon #Bluesky

Sill
Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Mit #60Sekunden wollte ich digitale Themen, Medienkritik und Politik in algorithmische Feeds drücken. Jetzt pausiert das Projekt vorläufig — nicht wegen fehlender Reichweite, sondern weil die Produktionslogik der Plattformen selbst zum Problem wird. Abonnement von CapCut zu teuer - keine Alternativen gefunden. Schade. Hätte gerne weitergemacht

Jugendschutz per Verbotsschild, Detox per Studie, digitaler Hausmeister per KI — willkommen in Social Media 2026
Australiens Social-Media-Bann für Unter-16-Jährige ist wirkungslos — wen wundert’s. Zwei Wochen ohne asoziale Medien und man ist kognitiv zehn Jahre jünger? Gunnar Sohn über die vermietete Öf…

How UK tabloids, which once held a powerful grip on the national discourse, are struggling in an era of social media feeds, AI, and influencer-driven content (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ac2e5ac3-5d19-49f4-b958-578a5e265e3c

"Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds"
#SriLanka #Facebook #SocialMedia

Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.

California's "red mirage" feeds MAGA fraud frenzy (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/09/fraud-california-elections-los-angeles-mayor
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p19#a260609p19

Mela is listening to a podcast: Madame Macron: Der Rufmord aus dem Netz - Verbrechen- DIE ZEIT - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/verbrechen/id1374777077?uo=4 -

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Danke

"Sill monitors your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to find the most popular links in your network."
#mastodon

A look at neighborhood newsletters in NY and elsewhere, which tend to be solo operations with small-scale followings, but point to a desire for local media (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/your-friendly-neighbo…

Your Friendly Neighborhood Newsletter
Local newsletters from the “Boerum Bulletin” in Brooklyn to “The Eastside Rag” in L.A. are providing a sense of community that’s missing from our algorithmic feeds, writes Kyle Chayka.

@tomscott.name: 'The old system produced too few entrances. The new one produces too few exits from itself. It helps us find our people, but it also folds that discovery back into the machinery of feeds, metrics, recommendations and monetisation.
...
The internet satisfies the need before it becomes a movement.'

Watching all the posts go by on my social media feeds, it’s easy to lose myself in the flood-river. What to do?
For more than a year now I’ve been re-imagining and re-writing some of the posts I encounter — it’s a form of play that reclaims my attention and sense of self.
https://salrandolph.substack.c…

Every Sound I Can Now Hear - writing back to the social media feed
In which I re-imagine and re-write posts from Blue Sky and other social media.

Trump’s daily declarations about how the war is over or almost over or will be over in 30 seconds or there's a ceasefire hiding under the next rock or whatever? That’s all non-information, just a conveyor belt of nothingburgers he feeds the press for them to dutifully regurgitate.
But •this•? This is actual news.
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/house-passes-war-power-resolution-trump-iran

Full Feeds, Please!
https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/04/please-consider-publishing-a-full-text-rss-feed-for-your-website-or-blog/

Please consider publishing a full-text RSS feed for your website or blog
I have used RSS (

A #podcast so good I have been saving and treasuring every episode until I have undisturbed time to listen.
Utterly absorbing..
@… 's #Podyssey: 2.3 EUROPA I: Quite a lot of bull
Episode webpage: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey
Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9220472084.mp3?updated=1775627107

Mela is listening to a podcast: Update: Wann schaltet die Regierung in den Krisenmodus? - Was jetzt- DIE ZEIT - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/was-jetzt/id1279335230?uo=4 -

Investors have grown accustomed to buying into major selloffs because stocks recover quickly
— not this time so far.

"This is a little bit of a more protracted, longer duration selloff than what investors have become used to,"
"Ironically, I think that's keeping people from feeling that they can buy the dip."
Big Tech firm's are spending at such a record rate to fund their AI ambitions, their capital expenditure is a bigger driver…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116527541711105481
I've updated my list with "Discover," a curated list of RSS feeds worth following, made by @…

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Danke

A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as "News 2.0" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

Polymarket Says It Deals in Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods
A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.

heise | NetNewsWire 7 im Test: Der RSS-Nachrichtensammler
Wer viele Websites beobachten möchte, kann es sich mit dieser App leichter machen: NetNewsWire 7 verfolgt RSS-Feeds von Newsseiten und Blogs.
https://www.

NetNewsWire 7 im Test: Der RSS-Nachrichtensammler
Wer viele Websites beobachten möchte, kann es sich mit dieser App leichter machen: NetNewsWire 7 verfolgt RSS-Feeds von Newsseiten und Blogs.

Flare has a desktop client, too c:
FINALLY BOTH FEEDS AS ONE ON DESKTOP 🙏🏻

@… I just installed Tapestry last night and I’m fascinated by the idea.
If this is not the right place to ask please direct me to the best way to contact.
Does it require subscription for handling Mastodon operations like reply/bookmark/etc? (I get an error for each of these)
Does it refresh RSS feeds normally like any other readers?
Does accessing Bluesky require any special setup or sub to work? (Getting an authentication error related to a token)
🙏

"AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China"
#China #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China
In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China's east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them.

Mela is listening to a podcast: Madame Macron: Der Rufmord aus dem Netz - Verbrechen- DIE ZEIT - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/verbrechen/id1374777077?uo=4 -

I am trying to restrain my boosting habits more. I realized that duplicate boosts are still a nuisance for some folks, so I am trying to remember that most toots I see because of boosting have probably hit the feeds of everyone who follows me.
I still have old #FowlSite algorithm-feeding habits, even when that's not really a thing here.

Warum gibt es eigentlich keine Kilometerzähler für die zurückgelegte Scrolldistanz in Feeds (Social, RSS, Suchergebnissen, sonst was)? Wäre doch ne schöne Metrik. 😄
#Metriken

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116636126221238889
This is the way. Unless the profits from data centers return to communities, it's just extraction.
And data centers don't really bring that many jobs. They're a few guys replacing parts as stuff burns out. Maintenance on power feeds. But mostly they sit there, trying to stay cool.

A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as "News 2.0" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

Polymarket Says It Deals in Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods
A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.

Mela is listening to a podcast: Pendlerpauschale, Spritpreisbremse, 9-Euro-Ticket: Was hilft? - Was jetzt- DIE ZEIT - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/was-jetzt/id1279335230?uo=4 -

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nine Inch Nails:
🎵 The Hand That Feeds (Photek Straight Mix)
#NineInchNails
https://open.spotify.com/track/4L5r9XNiWJ7cbqcIiNvVes

from my link log —
Kill the newsletter!
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
saved 2020-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/L7RVB.html

After 88 days of near-total internet blackout in Iran,
long-delayed messages, images and poems flooded phones and social media feeds at about 5pm on Tuesday,
when still-limited connectivity flickered back to life.
The first reactions, however, were not celebratory.
Many new posts were threaded with scepticism, anxiety and anger.
Ellie*, 42, an artist from Tehran, was able to connect for the first time since 28 February.
“I lit a cigarette, played SoundCloud…

Nice of Trump to take time out from raping children to bring this to our attention. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116297487660996290

If you want to stay sane AND stay up to date on the news your friends are sharing, sill.social by @… might be just the right thing for you.
Give it a try, I think it's pretty great.🌻
https://sill.social/

Sill
Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Prime Video offers Masters Tournament coverage for the first time, with two hours of live broadcasts Thursday and Friday plus feeds from "Amen Corner" and more (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/masters-amazon-pr…

The Masters is Amazon Prime's next test in live sports
Prime Video is carrying early round coverage of golf's most prestigious event on Thursday and Friday.

Geweldig hoe alarmeringen.nl allerlei RSS feeds aanbiedt. maar DPG er vervolgens een dikke firewall voor zet, zodat je ze niet automatisch kunt uitlezen.

I wish more newsletters would stop speeding up from once-per-week, my email inbox is getting cluttered and my only choice is fully unsubscribing.
Related: I wish all newsletters would die in favor of RSS feeds.

Your Feed Is the Product of a Stealth Marketing Campaign
"We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave, where what looks like the spontaneous of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall, put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks and something to sell."
https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Mela is listening to a podcast: Update: Der Präsident der USA kündigt Kriegsverbrechen an - Was jetzt- DIE ZEIT - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/was-jetzt/id1279335230?uo=4 -

As an #Emacs user who reads #Atom and #RSS feeds since the 90s on a daily basis to all users of #elfeed:
If you're using…

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/905929/flipboard-surf-fediverse-launch

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader
It’s a product of the social web, also known as the fediverse. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to curate the content they want, wherever it comes from.

"Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On"
#Krill #Whales #Oceans

Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On
In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, whales and other marine mammals rely on krill to survive. But as the market for human dietary supplements and animal feeds booms, and climate change reduces krill populations, scientists worry there may not be enough to go around.

Das Internet stirbt: Soziale Medien sollten uns mit Freund:innen verbinden. Heute fluten KI-Obst, Fake-Clips und Bot-Kommentare die Feeds. Carla Siepmann auf @netzpolitik: Die Entmenschlichung sozialer Medien hat lange vor KI begonnen – jetzt wird sie nur noch beschleunigt. #DigitaleSouveränität #KI

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Danke

Wenn dir der Feed gefällt und du mich bei den Serverkosten unterstützten möchtest, kannst du das hier tun: https://buymeacoffee.com/mastodonserver
Danke

Mela is listening to a podcast: Als Mann länger ins Ausland? Warum die Bundeswehr da mitreden könnte - Was jetzt- DIE ZEIT - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/was-jetzt/id1279335230?uo=4 -

DIY Mesh-enabled Weather Station
The DIY project of the week for me has been a fusion of mesh technologies and weather sensors, brought together with a Wifi backbone powered by a Raspberry pi.
Read how to build your own MeshCore-enabled basic weather station that can also push data to your local Home Assistant.
#MeshCore

DIY Mesh-enabled Weather Station
DIY Weather Freedom: Build a Raspberry Pi sensor that measures your backyard, meshes with a whole neighborhood or even city, and feeds it all straight into...

"Podslop" is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/905929/flipboard-surf-fediverse-launch

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader
It’s a product of the social web, also known as the fediverse. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to curate the content they want, wherever it comes from.

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Danke

Reading algorithmic feeds is a crazy thing to do: abandoning control over your own influences to a robot programmed by advertisers to manipulate you?
Madness.
I will not allow a robot programmed by advertisers and surveillance capitalists to determine what I read.
I don’t read any robo-feeds and don’t recommend anyone else does.
But people do:
Top five highest reaching smart phone apps:
All designed to harvest data from your phone, three of them owned by one creepy billionaire, and most people use them by looking at a robo-feed suggesting to them what to read and watch or filter.
I don’t use any of them.
I watch some Youtube, but not though their app. Uninstalled that from my phone as soon as I got it. It’s an awful downgrade of just playing in a browser page. I subscribe to some channels there in my RSS reader like a boss. Never watch what their recommendation algorithms suggests.
I tell them what I want to watch, I don’t let them tell ME what to watch, and frankly I wish all those videographers would start a peertube instance or something instead of posting their work on a corporate surveillance site.
I say you should avoid that algorithm stuff, it’s crazy manipulative.
But people should be free to do what they want.
I’m free to block Facebook! And I do: and I encourage everyone else to do so too.
Edit your DNS, block their domain names. Do it.
But if governments or corporations have the power to mandate those choices for everyone, it will go badly.
Prohibitions always do.

"Podslop" is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

"Rice feeds billions of people—but its role in fueling climate change is growing"
#Rice #Food #Climate #ClimateChange

Rice feeds billions of people—but its role in fueling climate change is growing
Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people.

Inside JioStar's Mumbai-based production facility, the nerve center for IPL cricket streams that have attracted 1.1B viewers across TV and streaming in 2026 (Sukhman Singh/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7317291…

IPL 2026: Behind the scenes at JioStar — ‘The future of sports broadcasting’
This year's IPL has surpassed 1.1bn viewers across JioStar's television and digital platforms, with feeds pumped out in 12 languages

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Danke

Q&A with Katie Couric about her media company, the state of broadcast news, why "both sides" reporting will fail, media companies' "capitulation" to Trump, more (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/katie

Katie Couric On Network News, Media Bowing to Trump, Her Social Feeds
As her independent Katie Couric Media expands, the former "CBS Evening News" and "Today" anchor looks at network news, media bowing to Trump and more.

I see no sign of any recognition from those who would want such a ban that they see any of the collateral damage a successful ban would have on the majority of kids who are not falling for this bullshit. That they are banning any good at all along with the bad.
Under 18s only
I see that the lobbying for these laws are funded by the absolute worst companies on the internet, those who will be entrenched by the legal compliance costs, that will cement themselves as the arbitrators of who is allowed to access the internet.
It’s a gift to Palantir and other surveillance companies. The very people running these algo-feeds are the ones who benefit from IDing every user and stalking them across the internet on their government-approved internet-licence IDs.
I don’t think even a successful ban on social media for kids would actually address the issue of kids being exposed to sexism and misogony or reduce the kids alienation and depression.
A ban can’t help, will make many things worse, won’t address the problem, and will make competing with the worst surveillance capitalists on the planet more difficult.
Going to war with every internet site and advice forum and making internet access harder won’t fix anything, and will have massive collateral damage against everyone seeking support from strangers or trying to learn things their parents won’t teach them.
But I see we are going to do it anyway.
The direction is clear.
Those companies do get what they lobby for, and they are lobbying hard for ID checks on every website, wrapping their desire to enclose the internet commons for themselves in a faux concern for children’s welfare.
And governments wish to monitor and control the internet, so they will pass these laws.
I wonder how many parents have a family group-chat that they’re going to accidentally ban their kids from using, not realizing that ‘social media’ might include Whatsapp? 😆
It won’t fix anything, it will make the situation for kids worse, impose costs and rents and hacks and exploits on all of us, and increase government and corporate power.
Many will lose access to their networks of support and help.
So it goes.
We will build a better more censorship resistant internet. It’s already here really: Briar. Matrix. Nostr. Bitchat. Veilid. Spritely. And the rest.
The laws may push us there faster.
The race will go on.