Birchfeed allows you to set up an email address to receive newsletters which appear as feeds in the app. However, some people (including me) would actually like to see these in their email inbox as well. Now you can enable this in the Newsletters settings in the app.For spam

Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI "creative assistant" that pulls in data from a user's Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new […]

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What changes when you swap the daily doomscroll for journalism that asks not just what’s wrong, but what’s working? Oliver Balch finds out The post I stopped reading bad news for 48 hours. Here’s what happened appeared first on Positive News.

Are the "Screentime to Cash" pop-ups on TikTok legit? Here's what's going on with 'get-paid-to' apps and programs like this.

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Vladimir Campos, posting on Masterdon last week: Catching up on my RSS reader today, I came across really nice posts from @ellane [Ellane], @disassociated, and @dcbuchan [David Buchan], and had the same thought I’ve been having for so long: why isn’t there an easy way to reply to articles when using an RSS reader? rss.chat, […]

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

I built a new app because I was tired of scrolling past jokes, quote-posts, and the same article six times on social media. I also didn’t want to miss great articles from sources not in my RSS feeds when I wasn’t plugged in for a while. When I’m ready to read, I want the links. Just the links, and all the links. Just the Links is a native ap...

An essay version of the video is below – not just a transcript but a text that I’ve rewritten thoroughly to work as text. You can subscribe to the audio-only podcast feed over on Apple’s Podcast app and other apps if audio is more your speed. It’s also available as a raw podcast feed if you want to subscribe to it directly in the podcast ap...

"We do not have to accept children being drawn into ever more extreme content."

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

EU to ban social media for kids, England approves life-extending cancer drug, and reading linked to better health, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news that matters appeared first on Positive News.

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Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization. Yet, people’s access to these platforms is increasingly coming under threat from courts and legislatures under the guise of protecting young people online—presenting a significant hindrance to youth organi...

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Some good ideas on how browsers could offer the ability to install the current site. Frankly, anything would be better than the current woeful situation! adactio.com/links/22760

Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves.The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and social development.The potential problems include excessive screen tim...

I’m an invited expert at the World Wide Web Consortium. That sounds impressive, but it isn’t. Anyone can become an invited expert. The fact that I am now one proves it. You apply to be an invited expert and once that application is approved, you’re in. So you too could and probably should be an invited expert to a working group at the W3C. ...

Ange Lavoipierre, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), quoting Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram (IG): “If you go to a chronological feed, it ends up getting overwhelmed with content from companies, brands, and publishers. Creators get drowned out, and then your friends get drowned out even more.” These are the words of the ...

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The excellent website hilobrow.com has an ongoing feature titled Media Diet in which they ask people for … you guessed it, their media diet. There’s a set of questions, and you get to select a few and answer them. Not everyone answers the same questions as everyone else, and yet together we all answer the […]

The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web. Data gathered […]

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A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

As I wrote about at launch (which was only 18 months ago!) I wanted to build an app that gave me a different to use micro.blog. Something that felt more customisable, modern, and streamlined, while still staying true to the simplicity of the platform. At first, this was just

Things are different in Australia. Being south of the equator, people there walk on the ceiling and drive their cars upside down. But instead of relying on courts and litigation to establish social norms, the country prefers active governance to protect its citizens from harm. In the latest example, the ... [continued] The post Australia Promotes...

It’s almost enough to entice me back onto social media. But not quite. The Australian government is proposing to give local social media users the choice to opt out the algorithms that determine the content they see. If the laws eventuate, social media companies will be obliged to allow their members to only see content […]

It might seem quaint now but for many Facebook users, the introduction of this content algorithm felt like a violation of their privacy and trust.

Zachary Kai is running the wonderful People and Blogs series where bloggers share stories about their blogs. He invited me to share mine and I was more than happy to join the wonderful cast of the series. You can find the original at https://zacharykai.net/notes/pb/juhis. Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Juhis! I'm ...

A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 New Leaf Journal articles without permission, before I identified the issue.

A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.

Every time I launch Thunderbird to read my RSS feeds, I’m reminded that not one, but two people I follow have the same names as friends who are no longer with us. I noticed this on Mastodon too, before I took my current social media hiatus. It’s… oddly nice to see them still going? Even though I know it’s not “them”. By Ruben Schade in ...

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Ranking improvements, multi-story event detection, sleeker UI, and more.

The US startup Operation Bluebird has launched a new social media platform under the Twitter name, claiming that Elon Musk's X Corporation abandoned the trademark. The post Pssst, Hey There Elon Musk! Twitter Is Coming Back appeared first on CleanTechnica.

This has been one of those low level thoughts that bobs up from the neural surface (the Little Limited Machine in my skull). The bemoaning of web search devolving from the list of ranked blue links to something that zeroes on on what some machine language thing suggest. And what gets portrayed in the Everything […]

A trailer for The Social Reckoning, directed by Aaron Sorkin, which opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 8 October 2026, and follows-up 2010’s The Social Network, which Sorkin co-wrote. As I wrote a few months ago, The Social Reckoning is a far darker continuation of the Facebook story. That said, hints of what were to […]

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

This is the second of two parts on media creation. You can find the first part over here: Creating media with an uncooperative mind Infinite negatives # In trying to figure out what I should write and talk about, I could spend the rest of my life outlining all the topics I don’t care about. The world is larger than our attention can encompass. E...

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This week, both Meta and Roblox took steps to keep young users from getting brain-rotted by algorithms

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