The iPhone Duo and Galaxy Z Fold 8 have new aspect ratios for smartphones and it's challenging the status quo of how we consume video. Meanwhile, vertical video productions are heading to Hollywood. Can two ideas about mobile video co-exist or will one prevail? The Verge’s producer, Andru Marino, brings a foldable to the first ever microdrama festival in New York City to explore what these two sides think is the future shape of video.
Rare The Verge video (that isn't a podcast, and even rarer as not sponsored) and it's in 4:3! (My 5:4 at work is so close...)
"Previous-gen" foldables are not great to watch videos, especially when open, but passport-style foldables are making things a little bit weird/interesting.
Also, are microdramas actually doing well? I remember Blackpills doing vertical content, whose mobile app died like 3 years ago.
While reporting this story, a 404 Media article about AI-generated porn was deleted by Facebook.
"The LGBTQ+ advocacy group claims that the social media company fails to remove anti-trans content in violation of its own policies, leading to ‘well-documented real-world harms.’"
Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?
Maybe Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to ‘X’ was actually good?
Good article.
As a reminder: Pawoo was never run by your typical volunteers.
It was made by Pixiv (hence the particular link between those two) and got already acquired once by Russell Co. in December 2019.
Companies can run their instances (some even contribute to the project!) and it's not always a bad thing... but just double-check if they don't do weird things with it since you're still giving them data.
Vous connaissez peut-être dans votre entourage une fille de 16 ou 17 ans qui a dû arrêter les cours parce qu'elle était tombée enceinte.🤰 Dans ces cas là on imagine pas mal des choses sur les conséquences de cet enfant à un si jeune âge, mais dans la réalité comment ça se passe vraiment pour elles ?
All major social networks are financed by advertising and thus free to users who trade access to their data for cat videos and sometimes questionable news content. Wikipedia co-founder and internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales wants to change that.
Nice-Matin a publié ce mercredi un article compilant les messages "ignobles" postés sur sa page Facebook par certains internautes. Un procédé déjà utilisé par Nord Littoral et L’Union. Avec quels effets ?
Mastodon was built to be a kinder, more decentralized version of Twitter — then Gab showed up
La deuxième grève des femmes a réussi à dépasser les clivages partisans et à réunir trois générations unanimes à réclamer non seulement l’égalité des salaires, mais aussi un changement de société
How about posts that are public, but every time a company accesses a bunch of them, the API makes their CEO's account click 'like' on one of them at random so you get a notification.
Including names, emails, and private messages
Twitter now prohibits misgendering or “deadnaming” transgender people, alongside other harassment and abuse tactics. The change appears to have happened in late October, but news of it began circulating late last week. It’s part of a more general rewording of the hateful conduct policy, which now emphasizes the fact that certain groups — including transgender people — are disproportionately targeted with abuse
Vine co-creator Dom Hofmann says the sequel to the short-form video app is coming soon
Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service. The move comes as other companies including PayPal, Medium, Stripe, and Joyent blocked Gab over the weekend. It had emerged that Robert Bowers, who allegedly shot and killed eleven people at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, had a history of posting anti-Semitic messages on Gab.
Over the next 10 months
good night, sweet prince
If you got angry at The Feminists, congrats, you fell for it
Meat is a complicated issue. But also a delicious one. Let's talk about it.