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TikTok - Make Your Day
TikTok - trends start here. On a device or on the web, viewers can watch and discover millions of personalized short videos. Download the app to get started.

TikTok - Make Your Day
TikTok - trends start here. On a device or on the web, viewers can watch and discover millions of personalized short videos. Download the app to get started.

TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface
On the app, users drape themselves in the trappings of Black culture—and steal the viral spotlight. It’s exploitation at its most refined and disturbing.

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

Open Market (openmkt.app) - An AT Proto Marketplace
Hey guys, I think it’s time for me to share my project here. I’ve been working on this idea since last year, had a very cold launch in January, and have reached a point of stability where I’m confident the app is ready for the mainstream. Open Market is an aggregator (think of Google Shopping) aiming to help people promote their products, art, or anything they plan to sell. This includes used goods and pretty much anything else. The app creates a personal storefront for every AT Protocol user....

👊💰 We need a revolution in social media business models
Deepti Doshi on the business incentives underlying social media

Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...

TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that went haywire
TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that added wildly inaccurate text summaries to videos from users like Charli D'Amelio and Shakira.
The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.
A milestone in expanding access to AI
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.

Tren Griffin on Twitter / X
Software isn't Ending.Hoping the expense of creating software creates pricing power has always been a triumph of hope over experience.If a software business doesn't have attributes like network effects that create pricing power, its life can be nasty, brutish and short. pic.twitter.com/yzTVAdG2xb— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) June 2, 2024

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Mark Zuckerberg has a problem with your friends: they're the reason you signed up to use his platform, but they stubbornly refuse to organize your socialization to "maximize engagement." Every time you and your friends wrap up a social interaction and log off, Zuckerberg loses revenue.
Dear @wsocial.eu, I found evidence of a spam account posting on your network: @tiktok.wsocial.eu (which is also doing brand impersonation). This account has been verified by a government ID (otherwise it would not have been able to post); it has been labeled as "spam" by @bsky.app. #WSocial
One of the things must folks don't appreciate is that platforms like X and FB & Tiktok have pixel trackers embedded everywhere around the web. They gather your preferences based on what other sites share about you with them. Sites do this to get better ad targeting. BSky doesn't have that.
Freya Holmér
I genuinely miss the more algorithmic social media feeds, they help connect with fandoms and find new people to follow I've been on a nine sols/hollow knight/silksong arc for months, and bsky hasn't picked up on it at all meanwhile, twitter immediately did (...without even posting about it there)