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Bluesky saw 17x increase in moderation reports in 2024 after rapid growth

Bluesky on Friday published its moderation report for the past year, noting the sizable growth the social network experienced in 2024 and how that affected its Trust & Safety team’s workload. It also noted that the largest number of reports came from users reporting accounts or posts for harassment, trolling, or intolerance — an issue […]

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Instagram Reels rolls out new features for U.S. users as TikTok is banned

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

Instagram announced a timely update to its video feature Reels this morning, alongside the news that the Supreme Court upheld the law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. on January 19. The update, says Meta, will make it easier for users to discover the content that friends and followers are liking on the platform

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Instagram Reels adds new features as TikTok is banned in the U.S.

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

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Instagram Threads won’t share a timeline for account portability

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Will Instagram Threads truly integrate with the fediverse, also known as the open social web, to allow its users not only to interact with people on other services like Twitter alternative Mastodon but also to move their account elsewhere if they decide that Meta’s policies are no longer to their liking? Today that answer remains

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor.

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential

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Duolingo sees 216% spike in U.S. users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the TikTok ban. The U.S. law, scheduled to go into effect on January 19, unless halted by the Supreme Court, will see TikTok removed from U.S. app stores and will stop

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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that underpins Bluesky, the AT Protocol, and has been built using code from the developer’s

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TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

American TikTok users have been thumbing their collective noses at the U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok by spitefully joining another Chinese social media app, Red Note (aka Xiaohongshu), sending it to the top of the U.S. App Store on Monday. Unfortunately, many of those who already made the transition have faced problems with having

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Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers an open source X alternative Mastodon, a YouTube competitor PeerTube, and other decentralized social apps, now including Meta’s Threads and Flipboard (plus its newer app, Surf), that are part of a growing

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