Reddit is serious about ending the blackout API protests that have kneecapped the platform since last month. Most subreddits have since reopened amid threats from the company to remove protesting communities’ mods. But, some have continued to stay private, locking visitors out and blocking users from posting. And Reddit is making good on those threats.…
Throw on your pink sunglasses and take cover because the Barbenheimer countdown has officially reached zero. With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer finally opening today (July 21), the continued plea to save cinema (Tom Cruise, we’re looking at you) appears to be on the verge of success, turning casual film followers into pink…
Reddit has been on the receiving end of massive online protests from its own users over the past few weeks, with swaths of the platform being completely unusable by visitors at times. So, the company has seemingly decided that now would be the perfect time to once again roll out r/Place, a big blank canvas…
It seemed like exactly the type of juicy hypocrisy that the internet lives for. On Monday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that in order to tackle the spam problem on its new Twitter competitor, Threads, the company was going to introduce tighter rate limits on the platform. Sounds familiar? That’s because rate limits were one…
For LGBTQ youth, social media is a double-edged sword: a digital public space that acts as both an important lifeline for identity-based community and an increasingly dangerous threat to their mental wellbeing. And a new research brief from nonprofit The Trevor Project documents just how much this dynamic affects the online behavior of LGBTQ young…
Across TikTok, side-by-side faces are portraying the present and the future: how a person looks today and how their face could possibly appear decades from now. The “aged” filter on the app is going viral for predicting the fate of one’s appearance, down to the very last wrinkle. Millions of users have turned to the…
Reddit has been a particularly strange place in recent weeks. Although puns and memes are regular currency, the ongoing protests over the website’s API changes have transformed some of the biggest subreddits into an active haven of niche in-jokes, many of which come in the (undeniably glorious) form of John Oliver-themed content. And now, these…
After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, brought back many previously banned far-right users, and removed moderation policies, many users sought out an alternative. And some found that alternative in Bluesky. Or so they thought. Over the past week, Bluesky users have been protesting on the platform after a number of accounts using racial slurs in their…
Twitter has launched yet another new feature in order to promote its fledgling paid subscription program, Twitter Blue. And in doing so, Twitter has changed the settings of every user with open DMs, blocking non-Twitter Blue subscribers from messaging them. Twitter turned your DMs into a Twitter Blue promo On Friday, Twitter began rolling out…
Elon Musk promised that creators on Twitter would start getting paid for their tweets…back in February. “Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads,” Musk tweeted on February 3. It took a little more than 5 months, but on Thursday, July 13, Twitter surprised some creators…