MaxG (@MaxG@theblower.au)
Make a painless change!
Built by Palestinian-Australian developer Issam Hijazi and supported by the Tech for Palestine incubator, UpScrolled is everything Instagram refused to become. It is fully functional, thoroughly tested, and ready to scale.
#upscrolled🇵🇸🗝 #upscrolled #upscrolledapp #socialmedia
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media (@media@eicker.news)
»Tech giants face landmark trial over social media addiction claims« https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g8v6qr1mo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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gayexpired (@gayexpired@social.cologne)
🇪🇺 " #WhatsApp vom Facebook-Konzern #Meta muss künftig strengere #EU -Digitalregeln beachten. Der #US -Konzern hat vier Monate Zeit, sich auf die Regeln einzustellen. Demnach geht es um offene Kanäle in der App. Konkret fallen diese Teile von WhatsApp nun unter das #DigitalServicesAct #DSA – sie werden laut Kommission also ähnlich wie eine #SocialMedia -Plattform angesehen. ..."
https://www.it-daily.net/shortnews/whatsapp-dsa-regeln
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NieuwsJunkies (@NieuwsJunkies@mastodon.social)
📰 Fans verward dat MLB The Show 26 geen nieuwe coverspeler heeft
https://nieuwsjunkies.nl/artikel/1up1
🕐 01:00 | RTL Nieuws
🔸 #Verward #Honkbal #Show #SocialMedia
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media (@media@eicker.news)
»LinkedIn Shares Tips on How to Boost Organic Posts [Infographic]« https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-shares-tips-on-how-to-boost-organic-posts-infographic/810559/?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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display (@display@anonsys.net)
Emmanuel Macron will ein Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche, Frankreichs Nationalversammlung ist jetzt der Linie des Präsidenten gefolgt. Votiert auch noch der Senat dafür, könnte das Gesetz schon kommendes Schuljahr gelten.#Ausland #Frankreich #EmmanuelMacron #SocialMedia
Frankreich: Parlament stimmt für Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche unter 15 Jahren
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wdlindsy (@wdlindsy@toad.social)
"Videos are the start. They show what happened but not why. We still need context, analysis, and investigation to understand the whole story. And that is the last thing Trump and his enforcers want. They know people will recognize: a) that they lied about what happened, b) what happened was illegal, and c) those responsible will likely not be held accountable."
#AlexPretti #Trump #lies #truth #internet #SocialMedia
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wdlindsy (@wdlindsy@toad.social)
"Illinois Governor JB Pritzker instructed everyone to 'video everything.' Fellow governor Tim Walz of Minnesota echoed this advice.
'Carry your phone with you at all times. And if you see ICE in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans — not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution,' he said last week."
#AlexPretti #Trump #lies #truth #internet #SocialMedia
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Miro_Collas (@Miro_Collas@masto.ai)
UpScrolled — your voice amplified!
https://upscrolled.com/en/
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wdlindsy (@wdlindsy@toad.social)
"The internet and social media are often maligned for spreading disinformation, negatively impacting mental health, and perpetuating screen addiction and cyberbullying. Amid all the issues with pervasive distraction, in the time of Trump, the technology that lives in our pockets has become one of the most useful tools to combat the administration’s stranglehold on the 'truth.'”
~ Dan Rather
#AlexPretti #Trump #lies #truth #internet #SocialMedia
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https://steady.substack.com/p/bearing-witness
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2026 (@2026@markcarrigan.net)
Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube
I just stumbled across a whole channel of anti-ICE AI slop, some of which is rather obvious:
https://youtube.com/shorts/7GJ0hF42Acg?si=W9EylUD84jbzgUTH
Worryingly there are videos which have been viewed 10m times:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LqsdT0UneY4
This has been viewed 6 million times and it’s one of the few things on the channel I’m not 100% certain is AI generated:
https://youtube.com/shorts/0AbCHxB8jx4?si=8zO9N6Jngh1raY3v
Is this just straight forward engagement farming of the most cynical sort? Or could this be politically motivated?
#AISlop #engagementFarming #ICE #Politics #SocialMedia
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rolle (@rolle@mementomori.social)
TikTok getting MAGA spawns new social media services.
UpScrolled is apparently built from scratch as a centralized platform, not based on ActivityPub or ATProto. They explicitly state that current decentralized protocols don't deliver what they need for a video-forward app, whatever that means. It's run by Palestinian-Australian developer Issam Hijazi with support from the Tech for Palestine incubator, launched in June 2025. Positioned as an Instagram and TikTok alternative without shadowbanning, with chronological feeds.
UpScrolled saw a massive surge after TikTok's US ownership restructure in January 2026, when Oracle and other US investors took controlling stake while ByteDance retained only 19.9%. Some users accused TikTok of censoring posts critical of ICE under the new ownership, which drove people to alternatives.
Monnett is also built from scratch, centralized, with no federation. Run by Monnet Social SA based in Luxembourg, founded in 2024 by a team of European technologists and activists. It's their answer to surveillance capitalism, GDPR-compliant, hosted in Germany, with user-controlled algorithm sliders and no psychological profiling. Basically the European sovereignty play.
W is the newest one, announced at Davos just days ago. Another centralized platform built from scratch, run by Anna Zeiter, former eBay chief privacy officer. It's legally a subsidiary of We Don't Have Time, a Swedish climate activist organization backed by IKEA, Volvo, Unilever, WWF, and Salesforce. The advisory board includes former German Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler and Club of Rome chair Sandrine Dixson-Declève. Requires identity verification with photo and ID to combat bots. European-hosted data only.
The name of W supposedly stands for "We" with two hidden V's for "Values" and "Verified" - and they cheerfully admit that W coming before X in the alphabet is "a welcome coincidence". Beta in February, public launch late 2026. Zeiter said the platform would already count as a success if "political Brussels" posts on W instead of X.
So all three are new walled gardens with different policies and ownership, but none contribute to the Fediverse, ActivityPub or ATProto.
Makes me want to shout, "Hey, look here, we're here!". But nobody listens.
https://80.lv/articles/european-politicians-unveil-w-an-upcoming-twitter-x-alternative
#SocialMedia #W #UpScrolled #Monnett #Centralized #TikTok
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