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A lot of people are checking out Mastodon.
The number of active users rose by 294,000 over the weekend, according to CEO Eugen Rochko. I wonder why?
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Apple is going to ask the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of the ruling in Epic Games v. Apple.
It plans to ask the Supreme Court on Friday, according to an article from Reuters. In that ruling, Apple was ordered to drop its App Store anti-steering rules, and an appeals court upheld that earlier this year.
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r/videos now only allows text posts describing videos.
Users have been voting on the subreddit’s rules, and the newest one means you’ll be seeing a lot fewer actual videos in the community.
Currently, the subreddit’s rules are:
0. Posts must be videos
1. No Porn/Nudity/Gore
2. All post titles must contain profanity
3. Only text posts describing videos are permitted, and must describe a video in detail. Video links are permitted in the comments only.
r/PICS, another big subreddit, went NSFW on Monday.
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The latest hit on Twitter? A full-length upload of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
It’s been up for more than 12 hours and already has nearly 19 million views. The person who uploaded says they’ll be posting more movies and is soliciting requests for which ones.
Twitter has run into this movie re-upload issue before — earlier this year, posts with The Super Mario Bros. movie and Avatar: The Way of Water were floating around. I emailed Twitter to ask about this Spider-Man re-upload, but the press email address auto-replied with a poop emoji.
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Hope you didn’t want to activate your TiVo Stream 4K today — or tomorrow.
I have to imagine it’s only a few of you, but still, the company’s activate link to sign into the device redirects to this maintenance page, as reported by Zatz Not Funny. According to the page, the team won’t be back until July 5th — I have to assume it’s because of the July 4th holiday.
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Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino may lay out her vision for the company in August.
That’s according to a report from Financial Times that I missed last week — she may do it the first week of August in a Twitter Spaces room.
Apparently, Yaccarino also wants to add “full-screen, sound-on video ads” when looking through Twitter’s short-form video feed. Can’t wait! Wonder if those ads will be rate limited!
Linda Yaccarino’s vision for Twitter 2.0 emerges
[FinancialTimes]
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YouTuber Ryan Trahan is trying to survive on a penny... again.
Last year, he did a daily vlog series and fundraiser where he started with a penny and had 30 days to travel coast-to-coast across the US (and eventually deliver a giant penny to MrBeast). He’s doing the series again this month, but this time, he has seven days to get from Paris back to the US.
So far, the series is proving to be extremely popular — Day 2 is currently the top-trending video on YouTube, and even though he just posted Day 3 a couple hours ago, it already has more than half a million views.