Social Media History
- slate.com Meet the EU Law That Could Reshape Online Speech in the U.S.
The Digital Services Act, recently passed by the European Union, places strict content moderation requirements on Meta, Twitter, and other tech platforms.
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Lemmy documentation: "History of Lemmy" - Reddit cited as direct inspiration. Author of Lemmy focused also on China vs. USA content topics as a reason to build systems outside the "Big Five" sites
An archive of the "History of Lemmy" page as it appears at the time of this posting: https://archive.ph/7lI0x
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Reddit, October 2012: "Jailbait" was for a time the second biggest search term bringing traffic to Reddit.
www.gawker.com Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the WebLast Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez (pronounced Violen...
/r/Creepshots: "teacher in Georgia was fired at the end of September" (2012)