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First Draft takes care of the busywork of video editing.

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

Instagram says the process can produce a first pass in under 10 seconds, potentially saving creators significant editing time while making video creation more approachable for people who don't have much experience with editing software.

The social app founded by Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is expanding beyond events with new digital homes for groups to connect, organize, and make plans.

Meta keeps trying to entice audio content creators to Threads.

Apply before September 4 to be a part of the TechCrunch Disrupt community by hosting your own Side Event.

Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to get away from cyberdecks this year." Tiny portable computers made out of things like purses, jewelry boxes, and other thrifted or recycled parts have gone viral on TikTok and other social media platforms over the past year, […]

You can keep Instagram from using your activity outside the app to influence the ads you get.

The DoJ said the app has made significant strides in privacy protections since the 2024 suit.

Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, it has reached a $400 million settlement.

LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working.

A few years ago, I discovered the Nostr protocol 1 thanks to Jack (Jack Dorsey) 2 . I've been using it actively ever since. I already had an interest in distributed social networks for years. I tried ActivityPub 3 for a while, but something just didn't click. Around that time, Jack started ATProto 4 within Twitter, but something felt off there too. I hadn't even bothered trying the methods that came before those anyway. It always bothered me—and many others, of course—that the internet became so centralized when the web is distributed by nature. The main reason for this was social media platforms. The trend that started with guestbooks evolved into forums, then to Friendfeed-like walls, MySpace-like platforms, and eventually Facebook and Twitter. The internet, which had a much more distributed structure with blogs prior to Facebook and Twitter, suddenly started to centralize. Due to the maintenance costs of distributed structures and unsettled systems, humanity took the easy way out and chose centralization, as always. Facebook and Twitter grew steadily, and many other platforms alongside them transformed into centralized hubs using the exact same playbook. One of the things people realized too late was that centralized power always possesses the ability to manipulate, a fact that eventually came to light through the Facebook and Twitter lawsuits and similar cases over time. Moreover, there was no such thing as account ownership in any of these centralized systems; we were essentially no different from non-paying tenants (or tenants paying with our data). As time passed, we saw what happened when the landlords started evicting people. Nowadays, even just posting anti-government content can get you kicked out of these centralized platforms in an instant, and you have absolutely no ownership rights over your data or anything else. We've actually been living in a crappy system for a long time, and this system is still going on. From the era I caught onto, ActivityPub w

Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to "build a better network - and a better internet," according to CEO Jack Conte. The Patreon roadmap includes discovery algorithm updates, platform and security improvements, and new features for both creators and fans. In a lengthy blog post, Conte outlines each […]

A teen who died by suicide was reportedly part of the test.

The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.

Patreon is overhauling how creators get discovered, adding short-form Clips, topic-based communities, and a revamped recommendation system designed to give smaller creators more visibility.

The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create.

If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.

Study finds X algorithm prioritizes ragebait that disproportionately impacts Democrats