social media
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12 Podcasts That Explore the Weirder Corners of the Internet
The internet is a place full of dark corners, deep rabbit holes, endless mazes, and wild threads. But with the chaos comes storytelling gold: These 12 podcasts use communities like Reddit, Yelp, Twitter, and Tumblr to launch into a different part of the digital world, with their hosts as your able tour guides. Buckle up.…
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4 Ways to See the Content You Actually Want to on Social Media
Whether it’s Facebook’s News Feed or TikTok’s For You page, social media algorithms are constantly making behind-the-scenes decisions to boost certain content – giving rise to the “curated” feeds we’ve all become accustomed to. But does anyone actually know how these algorithms work? And, more importantly, is there a way to “game” them to see…
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‘Woke’ M&Ms and 8 Other Ridiculous Moral Panics Throughout History
Moral panics are something. I started looking into them because of this nonsense about woke-ified M&Ms, and was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer number of imminent threats to our society, our children, and our Very Way of Life that I’d completely forgotten about. There were subliminal sex messages baked into Ritz crackers, kids making drugs…
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Ditching Twitter? Here’s What You Should Know About Mastodon
With Elon Musk now ‘Chief Twit’, let’s dive into Mastodon to see if it really is the Twitter alternative we’re seeking.