2025-01-14
xiaohongshu at the top of app downloads today, *and* “tiktok refugees” are already finding a home among the chinese luigi mangione stans. they're joking about sending their data directly to xi jinping in a red envelope. you know the american tech lobby is pissed right now lol [image]
Wired
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok U...
2024-01-25
streamers have criticized twitch's current monetization program, which only grants a 70/30 revenue split for those who have a high subscriber count. now, twitch is adding a 60/40 split tier, and lifting the $100k cap. the program is also open to affiliates https://techcrunch.com/...
The Verge
Twitch changes the Prime Gaming subscription payout model to a fixed rate, expands the Partner Plus Program, and removes the $100K cap for 70/30 revenue share
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
addressing the recent layoffs, twitch's chief monetization officer said that the company's efforts to cut costs were “independent” of the expanded revenue sharing program https://techcrunch.com/... [image]
The Verge
Twitch changes the Prime Gaming subscription payout model to a fixed rate, expands the Partner Plus Program, and removes the $100K cap for 70/30 revenue share
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
2023-12-16
artists and sex workers have been warning us about ai-generated porn for the last two years! how did twitch not see this coming! https://techcrunch.com/... [image]
The Verge
Days after updating its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, Twitch rescinds the “artistic nudity” portion, citing “community concern”
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
days after freeing the (fictionalized) nipple, twitch is rolling back its artistic nudity exception, thanks to photorealistic ai-generated nudes wrote about why conditional nudity policies aren't actually that progressive anyway https://techcrunch.com/...
The Verge
Days after updating its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, Twitch rescinds the “artistic nudity” portion, citing “community concern”
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
2023-10-18
after almost three and a half years of struggling to scale, reddit is killing its blockchain rewards program https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Reddit kills Community Points, started in 2020 as a blockchain-based way to reward creators and developers, citing the regulatory environment and scaling issues
2023-05-04
wrote about bluesky, black twitter, & sex work if bluesky is the next twitter, it needs to be better than twitter - and safer for the marginalized communities that are shaping the platform's culture (also got the line “tiddies on the skyline” published) https://techcrunch.com/...
The Verge
Bluesky, which has 55K+ users, feels absolutely wild, with the CEO asking users to stop calling posts “skeets”, a struggle to establish norms, and lots of nudes
and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued. That changes right now. @sam...
2023-05-03
wrote about bluesky, black twitter, & sex work if bluesky is the next twitter, it needs to be better than twitter - and safer for the marginalized communities that are shaping the platform's culture (also got the line “tiddies on the skyline” published) https://techcrunch.com/...
The Verge
Bluesky, which has ~55,000 users, feels absolutely wild, highlighted by the CEO pleading to stop “skeets” and increasingly weird struggles over norms and vibes
Early last week, barely anyone had heard of Bluesky. On Wednesday, it was just one of many alternatives vying …
2023-04-11
to get verified on instagram, users have to change their profile display names to their legal names, as it appears on their government issued IDs - which is already a disaster for sex workers https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Sex workers and others criticize Meta's Verified program for requiring creators to use their legal name as their profile display name without a way to change it
so why do I have to pay for a checkmark? Tweets: Kyle Harris / @hikyleharris : @MattNavarra For $15 their doxxing themselves. Meta isn't doing it to them if they choose to pay for ...
2023-01-21
people on tiktok love to accuse up and coming artists of being industry plants but this proves that some of these wildly viral songs aren't organic after all! https://twitter.com/...
Forbes
According to six employees and an internal doc, TikTok and ByteDance staff engage in “heating”, or inflating video view counts, to court influencers and brands
TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos …
2022-12-08
the top images are illustrations by @gommatt. the bottom images were AI generated. he said it's not the same as inspiring another artist to create their own work in a similar style, “it's forcing the AI to make art that I don't want to make.” https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 for $36 per year and took off after adding “magic avatars”
Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
almost every story in this beat really is just “uh oh you like this thing??? this fun little internet trend? actually it's part of a very dystopian future aha” https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 for $36 per year and took off after adding “magic avatars”
Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
i wrote about lensa ai and the very murky ethics of AI art https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Washington Post
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 for $36 per year and took off after adding “magic avatars”
Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
2022-10-10
the lenovo legion foam pit closed at noon today, but the wendy's pit was still open at the end of twitchcon https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
At least two TwitchCon attendees say they were severely injured, one with a broken back, after using Lenovo and Intel's foam pit scattered over bare concrete
SAN DIEGO — At least two TwitchCon attendees said they were severely injured after they participated in an interactive exhibit …
2022-06-28
a few people recommended stardust when i put out a call for trustworthy period trackers, and on tiktok the company made a show of promising to protect its users :/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel
This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...
a few people recommended stardust when i put out a call for trustworthy period trackers, and on tiktok the company made a show of promising to protect its users :/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
VICE