Digital Crossroads

I continue to fight to make BBC News' RSS feeds not-suck, despite ongoing efforts to dilute their value by the BBC themselves. Last month they started injecting ads for their email newsletter-based subscription option into their RSS feed. But I don't need email: I have RSS! The ad initially slipped ...

But it might just give you an audience in return…

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds.  Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” on Tuesday, a feature it first launched on Instagram. The new tool allows Facebook us...

The movie is based on the true story of how Facebook employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on the company’s safety practices

In the future, we’re all heavenbanned.

Our evidence-based optimism project @beautifulnews.daily returns next week! Launching Oct 12th. A chart a day surfacing & visualising amazing, progressive and positive things happening around the world. The stuff we can’t always see when fixated on the negativity of the news. Ahead our reboot, we’d ...

This blogpost is adapted from a transcript of my talk given at Breakwater Festival in Gdańsk. You can find the slides here. I am an Internet plumber. I’ve been an Internet plumber in many organizations, including journalistic ones. I’ve also done information security work for media organizations, fo...

We’re back with another MacStories Setups update. I swear Federico and I didn’t coordinate our purchases this summer, but you’ll notice that both of us began experimenting with XTEINK readers and the Pebble Index 01 smart ring without discussing it in advance. The UGREEN Thunderbolt 5 Dock and Steam...

"What's he building in there?" echoes through my mind. In our latest experiment, we are building a new type of Fediverse experience geared towards aiding discovery. Here's how we get there. The post Introducing Fedizen, Our Bonfire Project appeared first on We Distribute.

Hi friends, In September, Scour scoured 1.2 million articles (up from ~880,000 in August) from 28,568 feeds. Also, welcome to the 116 new users who signed up since my last product update email! Here's what's new in the product: 📚 Library and Article TabsYou can now find all of your saved, lo...

ArsPro gives you more ways to read while directly supporting our journalism.

A few weeks ago, I finished a version 2.0 release for my web framework, Biff. Due to the whole job + kids thing, I'd been pretty much working on that for the past two years. Now that it's done, I've finally been getting back into actually working on my own web apps again. And the first thing on my l...

The problems with the furry fandom today are not as simple as,“Furries need to touch grass!” Unfortunately, whatever you’re seeing that makes you want to say such a thing is probably a structural problem with multiple compounding factors. I will elaborate. But first, for anyone who feels lost, I nee...

Birchfeed allows you to set up an email address to receive newsletters which appear as feeds in the app. However, some people (including me) would actually like to see these in their email inbox as well. Now you can enable this in the Newsletters settings in the app.For spam

Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI "creative assistant" that pulls in data from a user's Instagram account and offers sugg...

What changes when you swap the daily doomscroll for journalism that asks not just what’s wrong, but what’s working? Oliver Balch finds out The post I stopped reading bad news for 48 hours. Here’s what happened appeared first on Positive News.

Are the "Screentime to Cash" pop-ups on TikTok legit? Here's what's going on with 'get-paid-to' apps and programs like this.

Vladimir Campos, posting on Masterdon last week: Catching up on my RSS reader today, I came across really nice posts from @ellane [Ellane], @disassociated, and @dcbuchan [David Buchan], and had the same thought I’ve been having for so long: why isn’t there an easy way to reply to articles when using...

As I was scrolling along yesterday, a post about the lovely Professional Elite typeface popped up in my feed on Reddit. It linked back to Tom Fasano’s website, so I read the original there. I noticed a syndication icon at the bottom and stopped dead in my tracks! Had I run into a fully featured … Co...

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