## Website structure

Websites, and by extension "social media", have degrees of complexity:

1. The most basic website simply conveys information by a single user or group (e.g., this site).
2. The data may become more complex than text and allow [images](engineering-camera.md), [videos](engineering-camera.md), and [audio recordings](computers-speakersmic.md).
3. When the site provides any public forum for discussion, it becomes "user-driven" (e.g., a comments thread).
4. Some sites are almost entirely user-made content, and are often called "wikis".
5. If each user gets the freedom to make their own custom content, it's a "profile page" system.
6. The user may also have a "feed" that allows that user to present constantly updated, date-sorted data.
7. Each element of data might give the user freedom to constrain [permissions](computers-cysec-authentication.md) for which users (or unidentified computer users) can access the information.
8. Users may have the freedom to make comments on other users' information.
9. The comments system may be enhanced so heavily that the users can centralize it on a topic, which is often called a "forum".
10. The users may grant shared permissions with one another, with some demarcated relationship (e.g, friend, connection, buddy, etc.).
11. Finally, "recommender systems" can recommend portions of relevant users' data to other users.

In practice, the core of social media has distilled to several website categories:

- Blog - mostly static content by a single user or group, sometimes allowing comments (e.g., [WordPress](https://wordpress.com/), [Medium](https://medium.com/)).
- Wiki - mostly static content by many users, but only allowing edits and not comments (e.g., [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/), [Fandom](https://www.fandom.com/)).
- Content showcase - a media-based network that showcases specific, topic-based content (e.g., [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/), [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/)).
- Forum - constantly updating content by many users, organized by topic (e.g, [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com), [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/)).
- Feed - constantly updating content by many users, typically algorithmically sorted (e.g., [Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/), [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/)).
- Online Store - content that users can update for the purpose of selling merchandise (e.g., [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/), [Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/)).

## podcasting

[OP3: The Open Podcast Prefix Project](https://op3.dev/)

## social network design

[World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38077684)
[The World's Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn't Like a Review of His Work. Here's What I Learned](https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/devon-rodriguez-parasocial-aesthetics-2380960)
- it's easy to frame a system that enhances base human motivations

The Problem with Subs
1. [thing] becomes popular and lots of non-[thing] followers join the most popular sub.
2. The dumbest, most not-worthy-to-talk-about-[thing] people exercise their
    voice without any sense of responsibility. Some of them become mods.
3. The original enthusiasts leave to another sub where the legitimate talk goes on.
This is a product of:
- No vetting process for people to speak freely
- No prioritization of veterans of the interest

Conversations
- People tend to have an idea flow:
    1. Stated idea/post/video/original_content
    2. Commenter makes good points
    3. Conversation get sidelined to whatever the best comments were
    4. Repeat #2 indefinitely until people lose interest

Instead of our going online to get our email, our email comes to us.

Content was never king, contact is.

[Elon Musk denies shutting down Twitter suicide prevention feature](https://nypost.com/2022/12/24/elon-musk-denies-shutting-down-twitter-suicide-prevention-feature/)
- if you ever add a feature, MAKE SURE YOU ONLY REMOVE IT CAREFULLY OR PEOPLE WILL HATE YOU

[Why some researchers think I'm wrong about social media and mental illness | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35626755)
[Why Some Researchers Think I'm Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness](https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-some-researchers-think-im-wrong)
- High-Agreeableness people have a hard time with raw social media feeds because they are beholden to all their friends' scrutiny
- the only solution is a scarcity of information and/or a robust self-regulated permissions tracking (i.e., [my purpose] or [permissions])

[If Social Media Were Honest | Honest Ads (Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P30zKmCEtRM)
- gambling-based algos create successful social networks

Digital folk art - the amateur production of words, sounds, and images designed to be engaging or amusing and intended for amateur circulation rather than inclusion in any formal publication.

For a Wikipedia article to improve, the good edits simply have to outweigh the bad ones.

## specific social media - 0 other social media sites - China

NOTE: MUST MAKE A SEPARATE SECTION AND COMMENTARY RE: CHINA

## specific social media - Discord

WARNING Misuse of Chat Archivers, Deleters, Mods & 3rd Party Clients is against Discords TOS, so use them at your own risk.

## doomscrolling

[Doomscroller.xyz | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098178)
[Doomscroller](https://doomscroller.xyz/)

## fake accounts

[What the fake? My new Twitter follower who isn’t real | by OSINT Essentials | Medium](https://osintessentials.medium.com/what-the-fake-my-new-twitter-follower-who-isnt-real-28dda7605cec)

## fake news

[Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542321)
[Tiny number of ‘supersharers’ spread the vast majority of fake news | Science | AAAS](https://www.science.org/content/article/tiny-number-supersharers-spread-vast-majority-fake-news)

## forums vs chat

[Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38987383)
[We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack - PostHog](https://posthog.com/blog/slack-closure)

## large social networks

[List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users)

## mental illness

[Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39983233)
[Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness](https://www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-based-childhood-cause-epidemic)

## popular social networks

[World Map of Social Networks](https://vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/)
world social media popularity map

## recommender systems - infinite scroll

[My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30582202)
[My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll · Caffeinspiration](https://alexanderell.is/posts/infinite-scroll/)

[Infinite Scrolling: Is it Helping or Hurting Your Business?](https://speckyboy.com/infinite-scrolling/)

## recommender systems

[On YouTube's recommendation system | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28567678)
[On YouTube's recommendation system - YouTube Blog](https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/on-youtubes-recommendation-system/)

['YouTube recommendations are toxic,' says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25516573)
['YouTube recommendations are toxic,' says dev who worked on the algorithm](https://thenextweb.com/news/youtube-recommendations-toxic-algorithm-google-ai)

[YouTube's 'dislike' barely works according to new study on recommendations | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32917407)
[YouTube's 'dislike' barely works, according to new study on recommendations](https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-youtube-recommendation-study-080006930.html)

[Meta in Myanmar | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709284)
[Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website](https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup)

[Real World Recommendation System | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30991392)
[Real World Recommendation System - Part 1 - by Nikhil Garg](https://web.archive.org/web/20220411170951/https://blog.fennel.ai/p/real-world-recommendation-system?s=r)

[A visual book recommender | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35726559)
[Nathan Rooy](https://nathanrooy.github.io/posts/2023-04-12/visual-book-recommender/)

## recommender systems - tags

[I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248391)
[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com on X: "I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems. They're ubiquitous in software and have so many nuances, but I can't find anything on how to design and implement anymore more than the barebones basics of a system. Some thoughts in a thread." / X](https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1534301374166474752)

## recommender systems - Twitter

[Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391433)
[Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm)

## risks to kids

[Social-media apps are killing our kids. Do adults care? @ AskWoody](https://www.askwoody.com/2024/social-media-apps-are-killing-our-kids-do-adults-care/)

## social network design

[How Future YouTube Policies Affect Today's Creativity & Tomorrow's Income * TorrentFreak](https://torrentfreak.com/how-youtube-policies-of-the-future-affect-creativity-today-231216/)

[Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888444)
[Adrian Sampson: "super sorry to the guy with the username @reset o…" - discuss.systems](https://web.archive.org/web/20240224095706/https://discuss.systems/@adrian/110783401400871208)

[Mastodon Has a Cultural Problem](https://blog.tiia.rocks/mastodon-has-a-cultural-problem)

[What do I think about Community Notes? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292041)
[What do I think about Community Notes?](https://web.archive.org/web/20231129033851/https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html)

[Curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33775390)
[Why curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository](https://f-droid.org/2022/11/23/why-curation-and-decentralization-is-better-than-millions-of-apps.html)

[I Am Leaving | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36691867)
[I am leaving (Webbed Briefs)](https://briefs.video/videos/i-am-leaving/)

[A child's privacy is worth more than likes (2022) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550582)
[Your child's privacy is worth more than likes](https://www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/your-childs-privacy-is-worth-more)

[134: Myspace - explain xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/134:_Myspace)

[Stop measuring community engagement | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32765002)
[Stop Measuring Community Engagement](https://rosie.land/posts/stop-measuring-community-engagement/)

[Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073877)
[Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/)

[My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874846)
[1.1 My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span | I'd Rather Be Writing Blog and API doc course](https://idratherbewriting.com/smartphones/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention.html)

[Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495912)
[mathew's web site | Social networks](https://meta.ath0.com/2020/12/social-notwork/)

[And you will know us by the company we keep | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28829843)
[And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep - Remains of the Day](https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/9/29/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-company-we-keep)

[Nikita Bier on Twitter: "After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind-but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know: TIME FOR A THREAD"/Twitter](https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1481118406749220868)

[Is this the end of social networking? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430182)
[reb00ted | Is this the end of social networking?](https://reb00ted.org/tech/20220727-end-of-social-networking/)

[Nobody knows what's happening online anymore | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38697227)
[Nobody Knows What's Happening Online Anymore - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/internet-information-trends-virality-tracking/676888/)

[Death and typos: my six years screening online obituary comments | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831838)
[Death and typos: my six strange years screening online obituary comments | Life and style | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/26/online-sympathy-condolence-notes-screening)

[We need to rewild the internet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40055120)
[We Need To Rewild The Internet](https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/)

[The forgotten war on beepers | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067206)
[The Forgotten War on Beepers - by Louis Anslow](https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-beepers)

[So this guy is now S3. All of S3 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820368)
[Jonty Wareing: "It turns out you can simply se…" - chaos.social](https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432)

[New York governor signs bill regulating social media algorithms, in a US first | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/tech/new-york-hochul-social-media-algorithms-children/index.html)

[The Era of Free Lunch on the Internet is Over - Gab News](https://news.gab.com/2024/02/the-era-of-free-lunch-on-the-internet-is-over/)

[How Free Speech Platforms Can Survive – Gab News](https://news.gab.com/2024/08/how-free-speech-platforms-can-survive/)

[There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224225)
[There Is No Antimemetics Division @ Things Of Interest](https://qntm.org/scp)

## social network design - ads

[The quiet death of Ello's big dreams | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043871)
[The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org](https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/)

## social network design - machine learning

[Social Media As We Know It Is Dead And AI Killed It - Gab News](https://news.gab.com/2024/03/social-media-as-we-know-it-is-dead-and-ai-killed-it/)

## social network design - trending toward personal interaction

[Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37334737)
[It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore | Business Insider México | Noticias pensadas para ti](https://businessinsider.mx/social-media-dead-instagram-tiktok-bereal-replaced-group-chats-messaging-2023-8/?r=US&IR=T)

[The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38037851)
[The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy | Cory Zue](https://www.coryzue.com/writing/authenticity-and-engagement/)

## social network design - trends come and go

[Threads users down by more than a half | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906085)
[Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66336058)
- this is a natural flow: popular, then it's not

[What happened to Vivaldi Social? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919659)
[What happened to Vivaldi Social? | Thomas Pike's other blog](https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/)

[Graph Mining Library | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37753442)
[google/graph-mining](https://github.com/google/graph-mining)

['It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38055947)
['It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps | Dating | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/28/its-quite-soul-destroying-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-dating-apps)

## specific social media - 0 other social media sites - China

[Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China • TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/05/china-censorship-vpn-ban-party-congress)

## specific social media - 0 other social media sites

[chen2](https://chen2.org/)

[outburst](https://web.archive.org/web/20200910214639/https://outburst.it/)
an anonymous textboard created by snooper and rsa that was much loved

## specific social media - Amazon_Goodreads

[Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575003)
[Goodreads, Amazon's website for book lovers, causes problems in publishing - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/01/amazon-goodreads-elizabeth-gilbert/)

[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/)
Track which books you've read.

## specific social media - Amazon_Twitch

[AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622097)
[Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever)

[The naughty username checking system used by Twitch | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779566)
[Spectre](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601043828/https://pst.klgrth.io/)

## specific social media - AOL

[AOL search log release Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak)

## specific social media - Bluesky

[I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35845504)
[I downloaded all 1,680,399 posts on Bluesky | Worth Doing Badly](https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/)

[Bluesky Social](https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app)

[Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38171322)
[Pds sqlite refactor by dholms · Pull Request #1705 · bluesky-social/atproto](https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/1705)

[Bluesky signups are now open to the public | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274882)
[Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) - Bluesky](https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky)

[Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38739130)
[Bluesky: "📢 1.60 is rolling out now (2/5) Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login! You can finally share your quality posts with the group chat or in articles. If you don't want the Bluesky app to show your posts to logged-out users, opt out in the Moderation tab." - Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kh5rbndrjd2x)

[Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471116)
[Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Bluesky](https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web)

[How Does Bluesky Work? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495355)
[How Does BlueSky Work?](https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work)

[Bluesky has launched RSS feeds | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39007756)
[Bluesky has launched RSS feeds - Open RSS](https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds)

[Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39684027)
[Bluesky's Stackable Approach to Moderation - Bluesky](https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation)

## specific social media - ByteDance_TikTok

[Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109771)
[Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1) | nullpt.rs](https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1)

[Privacy analysis of Tiktok's app and website | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725139)
[Privacy Analysis of Tiktok's App and Website | Rufposten](https://rufposten.de/blog/2019/12/05/privacy-analysis-of-tiktoks-app-and-website/)

[TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30817017)
[Andrej Karpathy på Twitter: "TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack. First time I feel attacked by AI in the brain."](https://web.archive.org/web/20220508023313/https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1507893647341142016)

## specific social media - DeviantArt

[The Downfall of DeviantArt | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40380744)
[How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town.](https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html)

## specific social media - devto

[dev.to is now open source DEV Community](https://dev.to/ben/devto-is-now-open-source-5n1)

## specific social media - Discord - hackers

[Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124187)
[The data of 760,000 Discord.io users was put up for sale on the darknet](https://stackdiary.com/the-data-of-760000-discord-io-users-was-put-up-for-sale-on-the-darknet/)

[GitHub - BuildBot42/discord-scam-links: One page, easily readable list of phishing Discord-imitating websites](https://github.com/BuildBot42/discord-scam-links)
[GitHub - Discord-AntiScam/scam-links: A database of over 24000 scam links used for Discord, Steam and more.](https://github.com/Discord-AntiScam/scam-links)
[GitHub - DevSpen/scam-links: Collection of phishing and malicious links that focuses on Steam and Discord scams.](https://github.com/DevSpen/scam-links)

[GitHub - nikolaischunk/discord-phishing-links: An actively maintained JSON & txt List containing 22'000+ malicious Domains which are used for phishing on Discord.](https://github.com/nikolaischunk/discord-phishing-links)

[GitHub - Dogino/Discord-Phishing-URLs: Daily updated list.txt and Pi-Hole adlist of phishing domains used on Discord & Steam](https://github.com/Dogino/Discord-Phishing-URLs)

## specific social media - Discord

[How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28292369)
[Discord Blog](https://discord.com/blog)
[How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474093)
[How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency](https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-supercharges-network-disks-for-extreme-low-latency)

[Discord is not documentation | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746154)
[Discord is not Documentation - Terence Eden's Blog](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/discord-is-not-documentation/)

[Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712098)
[Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects](https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html)

[Don't Use Discord as a Forum | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502258)
[Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum](https://kraktoos.com/posts/dont-use-discord-as-forum/)

[PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364605)

[Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218114)
[Unlocking Discord Nitro Features for Free | 0x7D0](https://web.archive.org/web/20230822025859/https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/unlocking-discord-nitro-features-for-free/)

[Discord is a black hole for information | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30311982)
[Discord is a black hole for information. - Knockout!](https://knockout.chat/thread/33251/1)

[Discord, or the Death of Lore | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050858)
[Discord, or the Death of Lore - ASCII by Jason Scott](http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509)

## specific social media - Discord - ux

[Discord Branding](https://discord.com/branding)
Discord Branding Information Page

[Figma](https://www.figma.com/community/file/994323951589690341/Discord-Desktop-UI)
Discord Resources

## specific social media - Etsy

[A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000's | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188805)
[Dan McKinley on X: "I've been sitting on a weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000's for the better part of 15 years now so I figured I would write it up as a thread 1/" / X](https://twitter.com/mcfunley/status/1550219636464967680)

## specific social media - Fandom

[“Attention assault” on Fandom | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711086)
[j3s.sh](https://j3s.sh/thought/stop-using-fandom.html)

## specific social media - Fediverse - Lemmy

[How the beehaw defederation affects us - Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/post/149743)

[GitHub - maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances](https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances)

[Thunder](https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder)
[IzzyOnDroid](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder)
Lemmy client

[Voyager](https://github.com/aeharding/voyager)
[F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/app/app.vger.voyager)
Lemmy client

[Liftoff!](https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff)
[IzzyOnDroid](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.liftoffapp.liftoff)
Lemmy client

[Jerboa](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa)
[F-Droid](https://www.f-droid.org/app/com.jerboa)
Lemmy client

## specific social media - Fediverse - Mastodon

[Metin Seven 🎨: "Did you know you can easily se…" - Graphics.social](https://graphics.social/@metin/111799068106467789)

[We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137110)
[How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x - Blog](https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/)

[The BBC on Mastodon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36943866)
[The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - BBC R&D](https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub)

[Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36695635)
[Alexandra van Huffelen: "Vandaag lanceren wij onze over…" - Mastodon](https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685)

[Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36461701)
[Every Mastodon User Has an RSS Feed](https://www.rssboard.org/news/211/every-mastodon-user-has-rss-feed)

[Mastodon hit 10M users | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35224356)
[Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110051957865629817)

[Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570268)
[Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon](https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/)

[The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763357)
[Wikimedia Foundation: "The phrase "hello world" writt…" - Mastodon](https://wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation/110708950540815886)

[Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29079404)
[Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code - Mastodon Blog](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/)

[Mastodon 3.5 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862612)
[Mastodon 3.5 - Mastodon Blog](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/03/mastodon-3.5/)

[Mastodon.technology Shutdown | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120136)
[mastodon.technology Shutdown | Ash Furrow](https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/)

[BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759871)
[BBC Gives Up On Threads (By Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon - Darnell (Seize The Day)](https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon)

[Self-Hosted Mastodon on Docker getting "Blocked Host" error - help? : selfhosted](https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/11esmtt/selfhosted_mastodon_on_docker_getting_blocked)

[Leonido: ""There are Mastodon servers op…" - chaos.social](https://chaos.social/@leonido/111923069604539883)
[How Mastodon made friends with Meta](https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/)

## specific social media - Fediverse

[The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33543376)
[The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off)](https://berk.es/2022/11/08/fediverse-inefficiencies/)

[Freenode ops take control of 700 channels | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628)
[kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: "andrew lee just seized over 70…" - Mastodon @ SDF](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/106299403921451814)

[EU Voice | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33491433)
[About - EU Voice](https://social.network.europa.eu/about)

## specific social media - Gab

[Privacy In Gab's Parallel Economy - Gab News](https://news.gab.com/2022/06/privacy-in-gabs-parallel-economy)

[Gab Under Attack: The DDOS on January 23rd - Gab News](https://news.gab.com/2023/01/gab-under-attack-the-ddos-on-january-23rd)

[How Gab Deals With Scraping on the Open Web](https://news.gab.com/2023/07/scraping-the-open-web-gab-coms-approach/)

[Gab Emerges as the True Speech Platform, Contrasting The ADL's Strategy For X/Twitter](https://news.gab.com/2023/08/gab-emerges-as-the-true-speech-platform-contrasting-the-adls-strategy-for-x-twitter/)

[We're Cleaning Up Gab And It's Long Overdue - Gab News](https://news.gab.com/2024/03/were-cleaning-up-gab-and-its-long-overdue/)

## specific social media - Google_YouTube

[Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408515)

[YouTube, the jewel of the internet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679372)
[YouTube, the jewel of the internet](https://www.ft.com/content/c57e3503-6fc0-44dc-9d50-35f8f9da25d2)

[No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31324917)

[YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897205)
[YouTube Embeds are Bananas Heavy and it’s Fixable – Frontend Masters Boost](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/youtube-embeds-are-bananas-heavy-and-its-fixable/)

[Bypassing YouTube video download throttling | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37117338)
[How They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling | 0x7D0](https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-they-bypass-youtube-video-download-throttling/)

[Upload YouTube videos - Computer - YouTube Help](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57407?visi=&rd=2)

[Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023)
[YTCH](https://ytch.xyz/)

## specific social media - Google_YouTube - search

[To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix "intitle:" | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990043)
[Advanced Search for YouTube](https://playlists.at/youtube/search/)

## specific social media - Hacker News

[Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/)

[A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773957)
[A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437)
[hacker-news-undocumented/README.md at master · minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented](https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md)
[A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors](https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented)

[Thank You HN | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776808)

[Hacker News Guidelines | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31128903)
[Hacker News Guidelines](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

[Open secrets about Hacker News | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024032)
[Open secrets about Hacker News | Beng Tan](https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/)

[The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25048415)
[The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News | The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news)

[A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423949)
[The steep rise of Hackernews in Google rankings - jonathanpagel.com](https://jonathanpagel.com/the-steep-rise-of-hackernews-in-google-rankings/)

[Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627112)
[outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs: List of Public Blogs of Hacker News users](https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs)

[Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37761273)
[Extracting Hacker News Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API - reyem.dev blog](https://blog.reyem.dev/post/extracting_hn_book_recommendations_with_chatgpt_api/)

[Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35460732)
[Profile: dang | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang)

[Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30650238)
[Paul Graham on X: "Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday! Jessica and I were walking down the sidewalk right about here when we decided to start it. https://t.co/0shiPzxXPS" / X](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1502424734679638028)

[I managed to take down arbitrary posts on Hacker News | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255477)
[How I managed to take down arbitrary posts on Hacker News - Let's reverse!](https://reverseengineeringtogether.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/how-i-managed-to-take-down-arbitrary-posts-on-hacker-news/)

[Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32034114)
[Paul Graham on X: "@jesslivingston Incidentally, very few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN now, and what an amazing job he does." / X](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1282055086433284103)

[Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519)
[Exploring Hacker News by mapping and analyzing 40 million posts and comments for fun | Wilson Lin](https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse/)

[It's weird that most of "Hacker" news is dominated by business news | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812281)

[Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632773)
[at.hn | 502: Bad gateway](https://at.hn/)

[Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505219)

["Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888144)
[John Graham-Cumming's blog: "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming](https://blog.jgc.org/2023/10/hacker-news-for-retro-computing-and.html)

[Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41069527)
[40 million embeddings to find who knows what on Hacker News | Wilson Lin](https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse-2/#)

[Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016)
[Hacker News Stylometry Analysis](https://web.archive.org/web/20221126180922/https://stylometry.net/)

## specific social media - Hacker News - search queries

[Hacker news (new)](https://news.ycombinator.com/newest)
RSS for Hacker News.
Hacker News : social news aggregator focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
:star:

[Hacker News Text Search](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%3CSEARCH%20TERM%3E&type=all)

[Hacker News Username Search](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=%3CUSERNAME%3E)

[Hacker News User Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=%3CUSERNAME%3E)

[Hacker News User Favourites](https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=%3CUSERNAME%3E)

[Hacker News User Posts](https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=%3CSEARCH%20TERM%3E)

[Hacker News Username Search](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=%3CUSERNAME%3E)

[Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=tricks&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastMonth&type=story)
last month Tricks

[Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=tips&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastMonth&type=story)
last month Tips

[Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=productivity&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastMonth&type=story)
last month Productivity news

[Additional news lists](https://news.ycombinator.com/lists)
Related

[Y Combinator](https://news.ycombinator.com/show)
Hacker news Show : where people share their work.
:star:

[Newest Show HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew)

[Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=devops&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story)
last year DevOps news

## specific social media - Happn

[Happn](https://www.happn.com/)
[Happn Platform](https://www.happn.com/en)

[Happn App Store](https://itunes.apple.com/app/id489185828?mt=8)

[happn: Dating, Chat & Meet - Apps on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ftw_and_co.happn)

[Hacking Will Happn – Sourcing Online Proximity Dating Apps by @NGSesq | SourceCon](https://www.sourcecon.com/articles/hacking-will-happn-sourcing-online-proximity-dating-apps-by-ngsesq)

## specific social media - Hinge

[Hinge App Store](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hinge/id595287172?mt=8)

[Hinge Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.hinge.app)

[Hinge](https://hinge.co/)

## specific social media - Imgur

[Imgur Subreddit](https://imgur.com/r/%3CSUBREDDIT%3E)

[Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635884)
[Rules - Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgurinc.com/rules)

## specific social media - Kik

[Kik](https://www.kik.com/)

## specific social media - LinkedIn

[Leaving LinkedIn | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612443)
[Leaving LinkedIn Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency - CoRecursive Podcast](https://corecursive.com/leaving-linkedin-with-chris-krycho/)

## specific social media - Medium

[Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743772)

## specific social media - Meta_Facebook

[Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - Consumer Reports](https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-a5824207467/)

[The Psychology of Misinformation on Facebook](https://growth.design/case-studies/facebook-misinformation)

[98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/19/98-personal-data-points-that-facebook-uses-to-target-ads-to-you)

[Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752131)
[Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet](https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/)

[Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680997)
[Building Meta's GenAI Infrastructure - Engineering at Meta](https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineering/building-metas-genai-infrastructure/)

[Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116300)
[Tech stack rebuild for a new Facebook.com - Engineering at Meta](https://engineering.fb.com/2020/05/08/web/facebook-redesign/)

[How Facebook encodes videos | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930702)
[How Facebook encodes your videos - Engineering at Meta](https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/05/video-engineering/how-facebook-encodes-your-videos/)

[gubins.lv | Visualizing years of messaging on Facebook](https://gubins.lv/posts/messenger)

[Welcome - Facebook Read Eval Log Loop](https://fbrell.com)

[XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224347)
[XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works](https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/xcheck/)

[Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32245146)
[Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok)

[Safety Center](https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines)

[Ad Library](https://www.facebook.com/ads/library)

[Facebook Accessing & Downloading Your Information | Facebook Help Center | Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/help/1701730696756992)
[Help Center](https://www.facebook.com/help/460711197281324)

[How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41090304)
[How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?](https://doubleagent.net/onavo-facebook-ssl-mitm-technical-analysis/)

## specific social media - Meta_FacebookMessenger

[About Structured Messages (JSON) for Messenger | Facebook Business Help Center](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1646890868956360)

[Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459966)
[Internal Tech Emails on X: "Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger December 9, 2013 https://t.co/S3RlxsGRRE" / X](https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1528063312461582342)

[Facebook Data Breach Checker | HaveIBeenZuckered.com](https://haveibeenzuckered.com/)

## specific social media - Meta_Instagram

[The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808808)
[The Follower, 2023-2024 - Dries Depoorter](https://driesdepoorter.be/thefollower/)

[Instagram's co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597125)
[Instagram's co-founders launch Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579552/artifact-instagram-cofounders-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-news-app)

## specific social media - Meta_Threads

[Threads, an Instagram app | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580192)
[Threads, an Instagram app on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002)

## specific social media - Meta_WhatsApp

[A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38732770)
[Don't Believe Your Eyes - A WhatsApp Phishing Vulnerability | Security Is Broken](https://www.00xbyte.com/posts/Don't-Believe-Your-Eyes-A-WhatsApp-Phishing-Vulnerability/)

## specific social media - Myspace

[Myspace Data Dump | TheCthulhu](https://web.archive.org/web/20170201204117/https://myspace.thecthulhu.com)

## specific social media - Newgrounds

[Newgrounds.com - Everything, By Everyone](https://www.newgrounds.com/)

## specific social media - Nextdoor

[WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31818074)
[WTF Nextdoor?!! Over 130 clicks to disable all email and push notifications...  - Imgur](https://imgur.com/a/RY0jgQD)

## specific social media - Pinterest

[Law enforcement guidelines | Pinterest help](https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/law-enforcement-guidelines)

## specific social media - Radius

[Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398)
[Discover, Organize and Connect Through Events | Radius](https://www.radius.to/)

## specific social media - Reddit

[Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883747)

## specific social media - Salesforce_Slack

[Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore - advice? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34013643)

[Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25211262)
[Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack, deal could be announced next week](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/25/slack-shares-jump-following-report-of-possible-salesforce-acquisition.html)

[Samuel Hulick](https://ux.useronboard.com/slack-i-m-breaking-up-with-you-54600ace03ea)
(2016) Slack, I’m Breaking Up with You

[Joe Casabona](https://casabona.org/2019/01/eliminating-slack-distraction/)
(2019) Eliminating Slack as a Distraction to Work Better

[Standuply](https://standuply.com/slack-communities)
big list of Slack communities

[Carl Chenet](https://carlchenet.com/the-slack-threat/)
(2017) The Slack Threat
why you may need alternatives to slack

[JC Brand](https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/)
(2018) Slack's bait and switch
We all know the real reason Slack has closed off their gateways. Their business model dictates that they should. They're a typical walled garden, information silo or Siren Server

## specific social media - Snapchat

[Snapchat Political Ads Library](https://www.snap.com/en-GB/political-ads)

## specific social media - Spotify

[How can Spotify's search by lyrics feature be so ridiculously fast? : computerscience](https://old.reddit.com/r/computerscience/comments/u455p7/how_can_spotifys_search_by_lyrics_feature_be_so)

[An odd discovery on Spotify | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32559119)
[Visions](https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/visions/#spotify)

## specific social media - Stack Overflow

[Artem Stepanenko](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/5-steps-to-become-a-better-stack-overflow-user-4ce85711c0f9)
How to become a better Stack Overflow user in five simple steps

[Moderation strike | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192497)
[Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers - Meta Stack Exchange](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-strike-stack-overflow-inc-cannot-consistently-ignore-mistreat-an)

## specific social media - Steam

[FoG Trade - Home](https://f-o-g.trade/)

## specific social media - Substack

[Substack Notes Launched | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526768)
[Now live for all: Substack Notes - On Substack](https://on.substack.com/p/notes)

[Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33956300)
[John O'Nolan 🏴 ☠️ on X: "Some personal news: I'm thrilled (and admittedly, somewhat surprised) to announce that as of Friday, @substack is now officially powered by @ghost! Keep reading for an exclusive behind the scenes look at the engineering around the launch of THE TWITTER FILES PT2: 🧵" / X](https://twitter.com/johnonolan/status/1602330377812643850)

## specific social media - Telegram

[How many of you primarily rely on Telegram for all your piracy needs? : Piracy](https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/hpzcq3/how_many_of_you_primarily_rely_on_telegram_for/)

[Be careful using bots on telegram](http://www.wired.com/story/telegram-bots-tls-encryption/)
Wired article about Telegram Bots and encryption.

## specific social media - tildetown

[Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375646)
[tilde.town](https://tilde.town/)

## specific social media - Truth Social

[Trump Media's Move into Streaming World: Free Speech Meets Tech Expansion](https://reclaimthenet.org/trump-medias-move-into-streaming-world-free-speech-meets-tech-expansion?_nlid=9zPpG3YRYE&_nhids=ncRGMFG3seqwK0ls)

## specific social media - Tumblr

[Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429)
[Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/)

## specific social media - Twitter_X

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/)
[Twitter Platform Google Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=com.twitter.android)
[Twitter Platform App Store](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271)

[Twitter Developer Platform and API](https://developer.twitter.com/)
[Use Cases, Tutorials, & Documentation | Twitter](https://developer.twitter.com/en)

[Twitter Notes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31838049)
[Twitter Write on Twitter: "✨ Introducing: Notes ✨ We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. https://t.co/SnrS4Q6toX" / Twitter](https://web.archive.org/web/20230523004716/https://twitter.com/TwitterWrite/status/1539640956915290112)

[Twitter accounts dropping ".eth" from usernames | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958870)
[de-eth-ed.csv](https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/ddea062402cc22cc2aba78bff4d9c95f)

[Law Enforcement Request | Help Center](https://help.twitter.com/forms/lawenforcement)

[Favorite tweet by @elonmusk](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600)
Communities

[491: Twitter - explain xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/491:_Twitter)

[Social platform X formally allows pornography | WORLD](https://wng.org/sift/social-platform-x-formally-allows-pornography-1717516779)

[Twitter's API is down? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363743)

[A Java Springcore RCE 0day exploit has been leaked. It was leaked by a Chinese security researcher who, since sharing and/or leaking it, has deleted their Twitter account. : hacking](https://old.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/ttbzxk/a_java_springcore_rce_0day_exploit_has_been)

[Twitter suspends hacker who allegedly stole data of 45 million Argentinians | ZDNET](https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-suspends-hacker-who-stole-data-of-46-million-argentinians)

[Famed hacker blows whistle on Twitter, claims national security risks](https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/famed-hacker-blows-whistle-on-twitter-claims-national-security-risks)

[Ex-security chief accuses Twitter of cybersecurity mismanagement in an explosive whistleblower complaint | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/23/twitter-peter-zatko-mudge-security-whistleblower)

[Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562815)
[Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies | CNN Business](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html)

[Twelve Ways to Spot a Bot](https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-twelve-ways-to-spot-a-bot-aedc7d9c110c)

[OSoMe Network Graph](https://truthy.indiana.edu/tools/networks)

[Twitterrific has been discontinued | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34445702)
[Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom](https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/)

[Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324)

[Twitter Is DDOSing Itself | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36553236)
[Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸: "This is hilarious. It appears …" - SFBA.social](https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057)

[Git as a janky Twitter replacement | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488996)
[diracdeltas/tweets: janky twitter replacement.](https://github.com/diracdeltas/tweets)

[Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449791)
[Yishan on X: "[Hey Yishan, you used to run Reddit, ] How do you solve the content moderation problems on Twitter? (Repeated 5x in two days) Okay, here are my thoughts: (1/nnn)" / X](https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586955288061452289)

["Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints" | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375250)
[Elon Musk on X: "Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes." / X](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792)

[Twitter makes big changes for devs as it eyes decentralized future - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/15/22779149/twitter-api-version-2-official-decentralized)
[The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35370152)
[The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained | snarfed.org](https://snarfed.org/the-twitter-api-is-now-effectively-unmaintained)

[Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30876490)
[Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting 'offensive' tweet - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly)

[Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34291191)
[Production Twitter on One Machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast - Tristan Hume](https://thume.ca/2023/01/02/one-machine-twitter/)

[The Shit Show | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34393485)
[The Shit Show • furbo.org](https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/)

## specific social media - Twitter_X - ownership change

[Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31157969)

[My take on Elon's offer for Twitter | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044693)
[Yishan on X: "I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)" / X](https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440)

[Twitter has officially changed its logo to 'X' | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36845111)
[Twitter has officially changed its logo to 'X' | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/)

## specific social media - Vkontakte

[VK | Welcome!](https://vk.com/)
(You can enter [title]:vk.com into Google as well)
[ВКонтакте](https://m.vk.com/)
[VKontakte (VK)](https://vk.com/feed)
Russian / Former Soviet Union
Large social networking site in the former Soviet Union. Very similar lay-out to Facebook with messages, ability to create pages and groups, share and tag images, upload photos and videos, and play games.
[Поиск сообществ](https://vk.com/communities)
[Поиск людей](https://vk.com/people)
[Non-Fiction](https://vk.com/non_fic)
[What's News | VK](https://vk.com/wsnws)
[Sci-Hub | Открытый доступ к научной информации](https://vk.com/sci_hub)

## specific social media - Wikipedia

[Wikipedia](http://www.wikipedia.com/)
[Wikipedia](https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia)
[F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/app/org.wikipedia)
[Wikipedia](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.wikipedia)
Wikipedia
[Wikipedia](https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios)
Official Wikipedia app

[In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955600)
[In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia](https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles)

[School vs. Wikipedia | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33122705)
[RSS Club: School vs Wikipedia - ratfactor](https://ratfactor.com/rss-club/school-vs-wikipedia)
- THIS MAY BE SIGNIFICANT TO TALK ABOUT RE: HOW WIKIPEDIA UPENDED THE WAY RESEARCH IS DONE

## specific social media - Fediverse

[What is the Fediverse? : selfhosted](https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/udw9su/what_is_the_fediverse)

[Fediverse - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)

[Matt Hamilton: "Gab posters won't see this bec…" - NAS](https://noauthority.social/@eriner/112007073089653881)
[Fediverse](https://freezepeach.social/)

[Fedi.Tips - An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse](https://fedi.tips)

## build a social network

[How To Create Your Own Social Network With WordPress](https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/how-to-create-your-own-social-network-with-wordpress)

[How to Create a Powerful Social Network Platform in 8 Steps | Inc.com](https://www.inc.com/john-rampton/how-to-create-powerful-social-network-platform-in-.html)

[How to Turn Your WordPress Site Into a Social Network](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-a-social-network)

[How to run a small social network site for your friends | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29470565)
[How to run a small social network site for your friends](https://runyourown.social/)

## history

[The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38757887)
[The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close - Byte Cellar](https://bytecellar.com/2023/12/23/the-era-of-american-computer-magazines-has-drawn-to-a-close/)

## message queues

[The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180891)
[The Big Little Guide to Message Queues](https://sudhir.io/the-big-little-guide-to-message-queues)

## recommender systems

[Etsy Engineering | Targeting Broad Queries in Search](https://codeascraft.com/2015/07/29/targeting-broad-queries-in-search)

[Etsy Engineering | How Etsy Uses Thermodynamics to Help You Search for](https://codeascraft.com/2015/08/31/how-etsy-uses-thermodynamics-to-help-you-search-for-geeky)

[Etsy Engineering | Modeling Spelling Correction for Search at Etsy](https://codeascraft.com/2017/05/01/modeling-spelling-correction-for-search-at-etsy)

[What is the Cold Start Problem in Recommender Systems?](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cold-start-problem-in-recommender-systems/)

## recommender systems - python

[How to Build a Production-Grade Movie Recommender in Python - A Machine Learning Handbook](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-movie-recommendation-system-with-python/)

## specific social media - ByteDance_TikTok

[How TikTok's Algorithm Works: Leak Document Reveals Its Secret](https://gizmodo.com/leaked-tiktok-doc-reveals-its-obvious-secret-to-an-addi-1848166901)

## specific social media - Discord - bots

[GitHub - Rapptz/discord.py: An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py)
[The Future of discord.py | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28334516)
[the_future_of_dpy.md](https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1)
[vcokltfre](https://vcokltfre.dev/)
Discord.py Bot Guide

## specific social media - Discord - dev

[Python Discord Bot Tutorial - Code a Discord Bot And Host it for Free](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-discord-bot-with-python)

[Introduction Discord Webhooks Guide](https://birdie0.github.io/discord-webhooks-guide/)
[discord-webhooks-guide](https://github.com/Birdie0/discord-webhooks-guide)

[How to Build a Discord AI Chatbot that Talks Like Your Favorite Character](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/discord-ai-chatbot)

[Discord.js Guide](https://discordjs.guide/)
Discord.js Bot Guide
[discord.js](https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/general/welcome)
[Introduction | discord.js Guide](https://discordjs.guide/#before-you-begin)

## specific social media - Discord

[Discord Moderator Academy](https://discord.com/moderation)
[Exam](https://discord.com/moderation/exam)
Discord Moderator Guide

[Discordia-Development Wiki](https://github.com/Discordia-Development/wiki)
Discord Moderation Wiki

## specific social media - Google_YouTube - download

[DL YouTube Videos without Extensions](https://onehack.us/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/)

## specific social media - Google_YouTube

[How big is YouTube? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38739563)
[How Big is YouTube? - Ethan Zuckerman](https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/)

[npv2k1/awesome-youtube: awesome youtube channel](https://github.com/npv2k1/awesome-youtube)
[Awesome Youtube](https://awesome-yt.vercel.app/)

[Reverse image (video still) search and exact uploading time. Here's an Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content.](https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2017/06/30/advanced-guide-verifying-video-content/)

## specific social media - Meta_Facebook

[Download and Analyse Your Facebook Messenger Data | by June Tao Ching | Towards Data Science](https://towardsdatascience.com/download-and-analyse-your-facebook-messenger-data-6d1b49404e09)

[Analyse your Personal Facebook Data with Python | by emmy adigun | Analytics Vidhya | Medium](https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/analyse-your-personal-facebook-data-with-python-5d877e556692)

[How to convert facebook messages to csv after downloading to html : programminghelp](https://old.reddit.com/r/programminghelp/comments/9yg9b5/how_to_convert_facebook_messages_to_csv_after/)

[How to Export Facebook Data - Personal and Business | Coupler.io Blog](https://blog.coupler.io/how-to-export-facebook-data/)

## specific social media - Meta_Metaverse

[GitHub - shadowcz007/awesome-metaverse: Useful resources for creating Meta-verse](https://github.com/shadowcz007/awesome-metaverse)

## specific social media - Meta_Threads

[How the new Threads app is made | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637295)
[Emerge Tools | Threads Deep Dive](https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads)

## specific social media - Reddit

[How Reddit ranking algorithms work | by Amir Salihefendic | Hacking and Gonzo | Medium](https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algorithms-work-ef111e33d0d9)

[markdown - reddit.com](https://old.reddit.com/wiki/markdown)

## specific social media - Telegram

[flutegram/awesome-telegram: An awesome list that curates the best Telegram libraries, tools, tutorials, articles, bot and more.](https://github.com/flutegram/awesome-telegram)

[How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746674)
[How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API | DanPetrov](https://web.archive.org/web/20231204022429/https://danpetrov.xyz/programming/2021/12/30/telegram-google-translate.html)

## specific social media - Wikipedia

[How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33114107)
[How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive](https://planetofthepaul.com/wikipedia-download-usb-flash/)