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Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogether

2026-09-092026-09-09 Danie
Smartphone screen displaying a folder labeled "Social networks" with popular social media app icons, against a background of green binary code.

“The Australian government is proposing to give social media users the option to switch off the default algorithmic feed, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday. Under the draft legislation, “Digital Duty of Care”, […]

Blogdoomscrolling, socialmedia, technology

Image Toolbox is an open source Android app for social media creators

2026-08-282026-08-28 Danie
Screenshot of an Image Toolbox app with options for Single Edit, Resize and Convert, Format Conversion, and Crop functions.

“For you, as a content creator, the tools that matter the most are batch processing, format conversion, the 61 built-in export presets sized for platforms like Instagram, X, and YouTube, background removal, and watermarking. The […]

Blogcontentcreation, opensource, socialmedia, technology

Switched my social media posting from paid Make to self-hosted n8n and Postiz

2026-05-222026-05-22 Danie
Workflow diagram in n8n automating RSS feed posts to multiple social platforms via JavaScript and switch actions.

For the past few years I’ve been using the paid service called Make to pull my blog posts from my RSS feed in WordPress, and push that out to various social media services. I am […]

Blogopensource, selfhosting, socialmedia, technology

No surprise: Research shows you cannot believe everything on social media

2025-10-232025-10-23 Danie
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“An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and search engines surface these sites easily.” Everyone seems to be noticing social media […]

Blogdeepfakes, enshitification, socialmedia, technology

World Wide Web Foundation to close, as Berners-Lee shifts focus to Solid Protocol to take on centralised social media

2024-10-042024-10-04 Danie
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In a surprising announcement, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, revealed that the organization is ceasing operations. The decision comes after 16 years of […]

Blogdecentralisation, socialmedia, solidprotocol, technology

Important social media defamation ruling in South Africa regarding alleging without having valid evidence

2023-10-212023-10-21 Danie
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“Believing that one pursues a worthy cause in the public interest, does not justify publishing false statements about another party,” acting Judge Berry wrote in his ruling last week. “Believing that one pursues a worthy […]

Blogsocialmedia, southafrica

Not only can any RSS reader follow a Mastodon Profile’s posts, they can also follow any Hashtags on a Server

2023-09-022023-09-02 Danie
Image of a Mastodon post explaining how an RSS feed can be dermined form any hashtag on a Mastodon server. For example to subscribe to the hashtag dogs on the mstdn.social server you'd use the RSS feed mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

In stark contrast to X yet again (and now the final straw for me) breaking API interaction with a profile, Mastodon makes it way easier to follow posts without even visiting the network. Many knew […]

Blogmastodon, RSS, socialmedia, technology

8 of the ‘best’ social apps on Android in 2022, which are not Facebook – Sometimes alternative apps are also better

2022-10-032022-10-04 Danie
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Like it or not, social media is essential in today’s society. While it can have its cons, the pros certainly outweigh them. Along with staying connected with family and friends, social media is a great […]

Blogalternativesto, socialmedia, socialnetworks, technology

Jack Dorsey’s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter and it’s Blockchain based without any Cryptocurrency nor central servers

2022-09-122022-09-12 Danie
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“The fact that Facebook and Twitter control the business models of so many media corporations, at some point becomes untenable.” “And those corporations, if they’re smart, will move to models they can control the economic […]

Blog#securescuttlebutt, decentralised, P2P, socialmedia, technology

The hashtag on Twitter is 15 years old this month, and should have been called an octothorpe: 5 Interesting facts about it’s history

2022-08-272022-08-27 Danie
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The use of the hashtag as a Twitter tool to denote a specific topic in order for the masses to follow along—which was first suggested (in a Tweet, naturally) by Silicon Valley regular and early […]

Bloghashtag, socialmedia, socialnetworks, technology

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