Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.
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Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
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Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected
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X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts
X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools.
Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."
Threads adds new features to Live Chats as it expands access
The updates include translations, new tools for hosts, and more.
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators
The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook's recently-launched AI creator assistant built into it.
The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it
“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”
Social media’s next evolution: User-controlled algorithms
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The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span
“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”
Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features
Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.
Beyond Instagram: Introducing the next generation of social apps
These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.
X caters to creators with new ‘React with Video’ feature
X will now let you 'react with video' to posts.
Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles
In its latest update, Bluesky is getting into long-form content.
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused …
Weekly: Gehirn wie KI-Modell, Podcast vom Social Media Watchblog
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Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral
The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.
Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
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How to turn off Instagram’s new Instants feature and retract photos you accidentally shared
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X launches a History tab for bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles
X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later …
Indigo brings the open social web to one app
Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.
TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK
Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
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As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.