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by Firebrand 5y ago
Based on Apple’s job postings I’m beginning to suspect their stance on ads and tracking was nothing more than a clever ruse to weaken competitors while they build their own a personalized ad business for iOS: https://i.imgur.com&
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by Firebrand 5y ago
TikTok is a special case since it’s owned by a conglomerate with deep enough pockets to brute force their way into Western consciousness. They most likely pay their top creators not to post Instagram Reels. I don’t think it would have nearl
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BidenBucks Is Beeple Is Bitcoin(nymag.com)
2 points by Firebrand 5y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
What caused this surge of products from Twitter lately? The platform has been accused of being stale for years but then 2021 rolls around and now they have Clubhouse, Substack, and Patreon competitors ready to be released. Were they repayin
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Debating whether repealing Section 230 will suddenly grant people free speech on social media platform is missing the real issue. We should repeal Section 230 in order to destroy the social media industry. Online you do not interact with &q
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Must be the same people who think TikTok is just a dance app.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
People who enjoy comic book movies are constantly talked down to by others for enjoying them. The diehard DC comic fans who started the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign and pooled their money together to buy billboards during Comic-Con were ca
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by Firebrand 6y ago
The main takeaway is that TikTok is labeling videos that they determine are misleading. Just what the Western world needs: a Chinese company determining what is fact or fiction.
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Online Presence Indicators(reddit.com)
2 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts(theverge.com)
2 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
I was thinking about that the other day when Snap reached $100B in market cap. That’s a mobile app whose continued success rides entirely on the good graces of Apple and Google.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
I wonder if it’s intentional that Facebook products were omitted from Apple’s list of apps to download for new iPhone users: https://m.imgur.com/yT14ZVS
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Google’s Wear OS neglect has left voice activation broken for months(arstechnica.com)
10 points by Firebrand 6y ago|3 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
The mobile experience has improved for “normies” looking to consume funny pictures and videos on /r/popular, not the power users who comment or use niche subreddits. The Reddit app’s push for live-streaming and their recent acquis
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by Firebrand 6y ago
I don’t know why people are underestimating Instagram Reels. Instagram may be becoming more of an entertainment app like TikTok but it is still a social network. All content creators care about is engagement, and having the ability to push
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by Firebrand 6y ago
I never really paid attention to just how massive Bytedance actually is until the article mentioned some of their products. Makes sense how they had the resources to brute force TikTok into the American consciousness so quickly.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
How does TikTok moderate their content anyway? Do they just have a massive amount of people scrolling through user reported videos looking for violations? Being primarily video based and having the lowest barrier to upload seems like it wou
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Has anyone else noticed that Apple has started suggesting all of Facebook’s competitors as the first apps new iPhone owners should download? https://i.imgur.com/OeyVGoM Facebook doesn’t need spotlighting, but YouTube is jus
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Scott Galloway met a lot of backlash on Twitter for his take on the GameStop debacle but I’m starting to think he’s right: https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1354532507723640835 There are a lot of frustrated
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Fueling Reddit’s Future(redditblog.com)
42 points by Firebrand 6y ago|73 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
It’s oddly comforting to know Chinese social media and the influencers it creates seem to be just as insufferable as they are in the U.S.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Watching social media frame today as being orchestrated by some shadowy cabal was truly bizarre. Robinhood just didn’t have the capital to clear trades of super volatile stocks. I think people would have understood if they just came out and
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by Firebrand 6y ago
3.57 million people left New York City this year to live out their lives in comfort someplace else, and then 3.5 million people hungry for opportunity arrived to take their place. I hope to see similar results in San Francisco.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
TikTok seems like content moderation time bomb in general, and it makes me wonder if they’re struggling to attract brands when they can’t ensure their ads won’t end up appearing after a heroin production video that’s already racked up a hal
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by Firebrand 6y ago
I found the lack of discussion of TikTok compared to the amount of heat Twitter and Facebook have been getting before and after the election surprising. Do people disregard it because they think it’s just dance and funny videos on there? T
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by Firebrand 6y ago
It doesn’t bode well for society if kids and teenagers are spending more and more time watching YouTube videos and Twitch streamers compared to scripted shows, then.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
This is why the U.S. government is so concerned about TikTok being used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese government: https://m.tiktok.com/v/6880901448872234245.html Make a video about disaffected military enlistees
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Most developed nations now see China as world’s top economic power than U.S.(pewresearch.org)
2 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Says Govt Breakup of Instagram, WhatsApp Would Be ‘Complete Nonstarter’(wsj.com)
2 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Unsealed court opinon: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.222257/... Nichols says while emergency economic powers of the president (IEEPA) give Trump broad latitude on national security, TikTok f

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