@Techmeme@techhub.socialX 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/
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@publicvoit@graz.socialRE: #publicvoit blog, you can now subscribe feeds of
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow 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
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialVom Metaverse zur KI-Offensive: Mark Zuckerberg will Feeds, die nicht nur zeigen, sondern erzeugen. Du tippst einen Prompt, bekommst eine Welt – am besten gleich durch die Brille betrachtet. Social Media wird zur Bühne, auf der die KI Regie führt. Eintritt künftig wohl mit Abo. Meta bleibt sich treu: Visionär im Geschäftsmodell, blind für Verantwortung.
#Meta
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialEin bisschen enttäuschend, dass #ardsounds keine #rss Feeds für die dortigen Podcasts anbietet (https://hilfe.ard.de/ar…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Studie — Jungen Menschen werden auf #SocialMedia mehr #rechte Inhalte angezeigt – auch wenn sie #links sind:
Laut einer aktuellen Studie sind die Test-
@DamonHD@mastodon.social
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/116015299592234843
Adding support for disabled "live feeds".
Now the issue is whether to hide the 'Local' and 'Federated' menu items in the main nav. Phanpy allows users to switch servers, so…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Ihr könnt mit der Nachrichtensortiermaschine eure RSS-Feeds direkt in eurem Mailprogramm lesen und euch auch Artikel aus dem Internet zum später Lesen schicken. Ihr könnt euch einen Ordner einrichten, in dem ihr alle Mails/Artikel sammelt, die ihr gemütlich später in Ruhe lesen wollt. Man kennt dies von Pocket/Instapaper/ReadLater." – eine Erfindung von @…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialUse of 'colonised' is particularly disgusting.
As a character in a David Edgar said,
"We are here because you were there'.
Not that Starmer, who feeds the migration moral panic, can give lessons here.
PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
https://www.
@UP8@mastodon.social
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBluesky 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…
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@al3x@hachyderm.ioAfter 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.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China"
#China #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaA sloppy blog posted on how I spent $25 messing with Openclaw this weekend.
#openclaw
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialIt must say something about me that my social media feeds are chock full of stuff about tonight’s concert but almost nothing about the sporting event surrounding it.
Related: I went to Trader Joe’s and it was overrun with snack wanters for tonight’s viewing.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThanks to everyone who shared their blog link with me. Some of you had partial post feeds, one even just had no content at all!
Is it a faux pas if I ask those with partial posts to turn on full posts?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNew database reveals how Americans use water #UnitedStates
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialGesichtserkennung, KI-Feeds und die Macht der Plattformen.ZDF frontal berichtet über den Einsatz von Gesichtserkennung und Überwachung im Iran. Mark Zuckerberg träumt von smarten Brillen, die uns permanent mit KI-Inhalten versorgen. Dazu passt eine spannende ZDF-Doku darüber, wie die großen Tech- und Social-Media-Konzerne so mächtig geworden sind. Mein neuer kuratierter Beitrag mit allen Links. #60Sekunden
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888008/big-google-home-updat…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrime 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…
@anneroth@systemli.socialVery tempted to collect a list of (publicly or otherwise funded) news outlets without paywalls, to be able to browse news feeds without getting stuck all the time.
Suggestions what to add? Geographically diverse preferably.
(Yes, I do pay for commercial media but not all of them.)
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialI have now built out RSS feeds for all the post topics on my site so you can pick and choose what to follow - I have a very eclectic sets of posts!
https://www.simoncox.com/feeds/
@publicvoit@graz.socialMy #orgdown static website generator #lazyblorg learned lots of new tricks lately:
- ultracool #TagTree navigation 🏷️
- Atom feeds for single tags and combination of 2
@kidehen@mastodon.socialHere’s a Feed Generator Skill I knocked up that generates feeds for pages that lack this important content syndication and discovery feature.
How do you use it?
From any AI or AI agent environment that supports skills packaged using SKILLS.md docs.
Read on..
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… I also think that as a stop gap it would help if both proects offered some official API to query what the latest version is and perhaps offered RSS/ATOM feeds of updates so that knowledgeable users could subscribe to that and be notified right away, direct from the source.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFlipboard 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
@piger@mastodon.socialgoogle killing their RSS reader -> people adding RSS feeds to Slack
(this is the textual version of the domino meme)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFlipboard 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
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfWould be nice if someone familiar with @… apps sets up a tar pit solution to protect hosted applications like mastodon
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674
@joe@toot.worksRE: https://mastodon.social/@raymondcamden/116172243094546060
Oh, cool! I hope they have RSS or JSON feeds, now?
@gwire@mastodon.social> The malware does not exploit any iOS vulnerability but leverages previously obtained kernel-level access to hijack system indicators that would otherwise expose its surveillance operation.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA 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…
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@grork@mastodon.socialI can’t help but see The Claws™ true innovation as an event bus dispatcher connected to all the event sources you ever wanted — Texts, E-Mail, RSS Feeds, Cron Jobs. And that is the real innovation, not the AI part.
Imagine if you had a global event bus that was connected to, say, Apple Shortcuts…
@wemic@social.linux.pizzaI 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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA 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…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialWant to grow your own food sustainably? Aquaponics combines fish farming with plant growing in a brilliant closed-loop system—fish waste feeds the plants, plants clean the water.
Lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs thrive easily, while strawberries, peppers, and even carrots can flourish with the right setup. No chemical fertilizers needed.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869235/bluesky-roadmap-2026-feed…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869235/bluesky-roadmap-2026-feed…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-outage-data-cent…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney subscribers now get access to ABC local news feeds from eight US cities including NYC and LA; the streams join national shows such as World News Tonight (The Walt Disney Company)
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/abc-local-news-disney-plus/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube appears to be suffering a widespread outage starting at ~7:45pm ET, with feeds, Shorts, and homepage inaccessible, based on 300K Downdetector reports (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/youtube-outage-february-2026/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNews Literacy Project survey: 84% of US teens describe news media negatively, and 94% think news or media literacy should be part of their education (Diane Sylvester/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories
@pre@boing.worldI 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.
