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Patrick Collison tweeted that he asked Claude about the European air conditioning debate and was impressed by its candid response.
The author notes that after Elon Musk's team's efforts, X's user experience has improved compared to Weibo, though they are unsure if this is a compliment.
Patreon CEO Jack Conte discusses how the platform is evolving to support artists amidst the rise of AI-generated content, shifting from a membership tool to an audience platform that competes with social media giants like Instagram and TikTok.
A developer shares an alternative to repeatedly building the same social media API integration layer, likely a reusable tool or library.
MediaCrawler is an open-source multi-platform self-media data collection tool that supports scraping public information from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Weibo, Bilibili, Kuaishou and other platforms. No JS reverse engineering required, based on Playwright browser automation.
An investigation by The Guardian reveals that brands are increasingly using AI-generated influencers on social media to promote products without disclosing their artificial nature, prompting calls for greater transparency and regulation.
Polymarket is accused of using paid social media creators to spread deceptive promotional videos, raising concerns about misleading marketing in the prediction market space.
Explains why the concept of 'instances' from Mastodon/ActivityPub does not apply to ATProto (Bluesky's protocol), clarifying that hosting and aggregation are separate in ATProto's architecture.
Internal documents reveal that the Israeli government repeatedly requested Meta to censor posts and accounts about the Iran war, and Meta complied with some requests without disclosing how many.
Ferryman is a tool that lets users post content to multiple platforms by only posting on their favorite platform.
Mastodon 4.6 introduces Collections, allowing users to create and share collections of profiles.
This paper introduces ComRate, a large-scale dataset of community notes and ratings from X, and proposes MultiCom, a persona-guided multi-agent framework for simulating community note evaluation. The approach achieves 84.7% accuracy in predicting note helpfulness.
This paper studies hate speech cascades on Bluesky and uses multi-LLM agents to simulate them, finding that such simulations reproduce key patterns like stance monoculture and toxicity-delta direction, and that amplifier targeting on dense networks yields 7.5–12.9% reduction in hateful content with low benign collateral.
Social media platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok are introducing tools that allow users to personalize their recommendation algorithms, giving users more control over their feeds.
A Kapwing study found that 59% of videos served to new TikTok accounts are AI-generated slop, with children's content being the worst affected. TikTok offers a 'see less AI content' option.
The article argues that the UK's proposed ban on teen social media use is more about political posturing than effective child safety measures.
袋鼠帝 shared two open-source AI skills he developed (viral-topic and viral-title) to help self-media creators quickly find low-follower viral topics across platforms and generate suitable titles. He also introduced the experience of using them in 办公小浣熊 桌面端2.0.
A new AI tool automatically reads web page content, generates scripts, and creates full videos with narration, subtitles, and BGM, then adapts them into multiple languages and sizes for different platforms, solving the pain point of repetitive editing for cross-border content creators.
This article introduces five core skills for AI-powered content creation (topic radar, persona profiling, content generation, human-like polishing, distribution and review), helping creators build a reusable content production pipeline and move beyond relying on inspiration.
The author expresses frustration over the Indian government's ban on Telegram, which disrupts their entire workflow including AI tools, trading, and personal communication, questioning the rationale and highlighting the fragility of digital dependence.