How Craigslist has stayed relevant as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds, public profiles, or ratings
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces.
Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience
Advertisers are increasingly putting their digital ad spend into Reddit, drawn by the platform's growing audience and its influence … X: @ellynbriggs and @trishlaostwal X: Ellyn Briggs / @ellynbriggs ...
Apple postpones the release of Apple TV+ show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies
This is called voluntary censorship. We see it all the time here in the BBC. — www.vulture.com/article/appl... Luke O'Neil / @lukeoneil47 : Apple canceling this show is the first bit of marketing t...
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving users a way to build upon posts' 500-character text limit
Meta's Threads app is adding a way for users to post up to 10,000 characters … Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Threads Users Can Now Add Up to 10,000 Characters to Posts Tim Marcin / Mashable : Thr...
AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice
'It's disconnecting us further from reality, relationships with nature, and also our community.' — “Maybe you could organize … Bluesky: @wavesblog , @sarahjeong , @sarahjeong , @zackzwiezen.com , @n...
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals
(Bloomberg) - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a ...
Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content”, after Elon Musk said on February 3 that its users had “broken the law”
It'll take far longer than Twitter to topple, but it's *not* going to withstand its mismanagement. [embedded post] Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer.net : Reddit admins are now taking direction from Elo...
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books
https://www.techdirt.com/... Kevin Carson / @KevinCarson1@kolektiva.social : Copyright Nazis strike again: — If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at t...
A look at Neopets, a website launched in 1999 to let users care for virtual pets, including how the site survived multiple acquisitions and Flash's phasing out
An icon of millennials' childhoods languished for nearly two decades. Now it's attempting a comeback - banking on the fact that it hasn't changed at all X: @blakersdozen X: Blake Montgomery / @blaker...
As Gmail turns 20 on April 1, a look at its impact on online communication and its future as other messaging apps have come to dominate how we communicate
As a web designer it's incredibly gratifying to have worked on a site that has served people for 20 years. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. — https://www.theverge.com/... @darnell@one.darn...