Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook (themarkup.org)
BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)
Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…...
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app (www.reddit.com)
New subreddit talking about it here. I’m assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...
EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 (www.pcmag.com)
Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll (www.thewrap.com)
Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a...
BBS-like RSS feed reader?
Hi everyone! Can you suggest an RSS feed reader with a BBS-like interface (terminal-like)? I’m looking for something similar to the NeoModem project (which is lovely and you can find HERE)....
Antiwork was forced to reopen by the admins (www.reddit.com)
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit’s plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces “open and accessible to users.”...
Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?)
hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to
The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next (www.techradar.com)
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
Browsing Reddit posts marked as NSFW redirect you to download the app (i.imgur.com)
Apparently Reddit is now preventing people to anonymously browse NSFW posts in the browser. Instead they invite you to download the app.
Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1
Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!
HTTP Cats (http.cat)
Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy
It’s been a long journey, but here we arrive. Welcome home.
iPhone subreddit starting protest early, going dark indefinitely (9to5mac.com)
In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)
Quote from the post:...
Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails. (techcrunch.com)
Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’ (archive.ph)
OpenAI sued for defamation after ChatGPT fabricates legal accusations against radio host (www.theverge.com)
a megathread for developments on Reddit and with third-party Reddit apps
just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10....