Evanston RoundTable: Chicago Public Media begins rollout of Chicago.com, in exclusive partnership with RoundTable. “Chicago Public Media (CPM) has started its rollout of Chicago.com, a neighbor-focused social media platform launching with five pilot communities… The five pilot communities are Evanston, Avondale, Bronzeville, Edgewater/Andersonville and South Shore. The first phase started […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/09/evanston-roundtable-chicago-public-media-begins-rollout-of-chicago-com-in-exclusive-partnership-with-roundtable/#online-community — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #online-community, aggregated by home.social.
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Soda bicarbonate is what you put inside of a fizzy drink is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a rant about linguistic purity.
The real comedy isn't the chemistry flub , it's watching defend a language as sacred while proving they don't understand the first thing about how it drifted.
#CreatorEconomy #PersonalBranding #OnlineCommunity
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Futurism: People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All. “despite some initial hurdles, acolytes of the urine drinking lifestyle have found it remarkably easy to break through chatbot safeguards — engineering AI to say whatever it is they wanted to hear to begin with, essentially. The bypass, it seems, involves simply […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/01/futurism-people-who-drink-their-own-pee-are-obsessed-with-ai-using-it-to-reassure-themselves-that-its-a-miraculous-cure-all/ -
PsyPost: How online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power users. “In online political discussions, a small fraction of highly active users typically generates the vast majority of content while most people silently observe. A recent experiment reveals that polite and constructive environments encourage silent readers to post their first comment, but the most active users are driven to […]
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877678
#HackerNews #Reddit #Astroturfing #Data #Analysis #SocialMedia #Ethics #OnlineCommunity
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PsyPost: New study links the spread of the internet to a global decline in religious identity. “The spread of the internet has fundamentally changed how people interact, work, and learn. A recent cross-national study indicates that as internet access grows within a country, religious affiliation and religious self-identification tend to decrease. These findings were published in Sociology of […]
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ADM: Australian Internet Observatory launches pioneering national platform for digital research. “Australian researchers now have a new way to study the digital platforms shaping everyday life with the launch of a national self-service research infrastructure platform developed by the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO).”
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https://www.europesays.com/3255804/ Why organizations are turning to Agentic AI for scalable data engineering | nasscom #AgenticAI #AgenticArtificialIntelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CommunityPortal #CommunitySupport #CommunityEvents #ConnectWithPeople #DiscussionBoard #Forums #IdeaSharing #InterestGroups #MemberCollaboration #OnlineCommunity #OnlineEngagement #SocialNetworking #VirtualCommunity
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
Psst, there’s a few familiar Bluesky faces in the second image[contains quote post or other embedded content]
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3mvkyjzubfk2u
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#Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize#Bluesky #BlueSkySocial #SocialMedia #TechCommunity #BlueSkyFaces #PlatformUpdate #TechNews #OnlineCommunity #DigitalCulture #SocialNetworking
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New York Times: ‘Mama, I Miss You’: Relatives Go Online to Grieve Tibet’s Flood Victims.. “Nearly two weeks have passed since a fierce deluge of ice, boulders and mud tore through a border complex in Tibet, but China has not released an official list of those missing. In the information void, people have found their own ways to seek help and vent their grief.”
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Baltimore Banner: Baltimore pizza shop turns to social media after its card reader was stolen. It worked.. “… the staff looked everywhere after closing. That’s when [Hasan] Ilhan checked the security footage and saw that a group of customers, who had paid for their food, had stolen the device. The group looked young, Ilhan said. Instead of calling the police, the owners decided to try to […]
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Vanity Fair: 9/11 Changed the World in Many Ways. It Also Spawned the Digital Media Era. “Revisiting the observations I made back then, and since, it’s clear that subsequent advances in media and technology have changed how we disseminate, manipulate, and believe visual information—and how such breakthroughs have changed terrorism, war, the tactics of autocrats, and of those who oppose them.”
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Ukraine’s biggest victory this year exposes lying Russian commanders
The Ukrainian armoured vehicles sped out of the forest towards the village of Nove. It looked like a…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #counter-attack #Donbas #EmilKastehelmi #MrKastehelmi #onlinecommunity #Osint #PhilCowin #Russianunits #Sviatohirsk #Telegramchannel #Ukrainianarmy #VladimirPutin
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What’s one reason that would make you unfollow someone on X immediately?
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Mashable: TikTok is bringing voice notes to the comment section. “TikTok’s comment section is about to get a lot more chaotic. The platform is rolling out a slate of new ways to interact beneath videos, including voice comments, polls, photo carousels, and Live Photos. The four new features expand what users can post beyond text and single image replies, giving TikTok’s famously active comment […]
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A Shroud of Thoughts: The 15th Anniversary of TCMParty. “Today TCMParty turns 15 years old. For those of you who do not know what TCMParty is, it is a collective live posting of movies on Turner Classic Movies using the hashtag #TCMParty. It originated on Twitter and has since largely moved to Bluesky, although the hashtag is used on other social media services as well. Originally, TCMParties […]
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There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
https://weirdgloop.org/blog/google-jail
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604870
#HackerNews #GoogleJail #independentWikis #techNews #internetFreedom #onlineCommunity
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Mashable: Redditors say Anthropic’s expensive Claude plans offer far less usage than advertised. “A popular Reddit post in r/Anthropic titled ‘More Drama’ has drawn significant attention this week, amplifying claims that Anthropic has been misleading customers about how much usage they actually get with its higher-priced Claude subscription plans.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/mashable-redditors-say-anthropics-expensive-claude-plans-offer-far-less-usage-than-advertised/ -
Times Higher Education: Has Academic Twitter found its voice again?. “The migration to Bluesky, LinkedIn and Mastodon, which accelerated with the re-election of Donald Trump in November 2024, was assumed by many to be the end of the community known as Academic Twitter. Yet the issues raised by the [Jason] Arday case has reignited debates on the platform in a way not seen for several years.”
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https://www.laviezine.com/1633875/lg-electronics-lifezip-community-holds-first-home-lifestyle-fair/ LG Electronics’ Lifezip Community Holds First Home Lifestyle Fair #coex #HomeLifestyleFair #LgElectronics #LGStanbyME2Max #Lifezip #OnlineCommunity #PopUpStore #seoul
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Search Engine Journal: Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source. “A recent analysis by Ahrefs shows that public Facebook Groups are now the second most common site in Google’s Discussions and forums module, after Reddit. Facebook appears in 38.3% of the search results where the module shows up, with all Facebook URLs coming from public Groups.”
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I want to post something in English, but the character limit here is only 500 bytes. There's no way the English translation would fit. How do you guys usually communicate in this situation?
#CharacterLimit #SocialMediaTips #EnglishTranslation #WordCount #OnlineCommunity #TextPost
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Community Forum Guidelines Evolve to Combat Online Harassment
Join our weekend open discussion, a relaxed space to chat about anything that caught your attention this week - from the news we didn't cover to topics that are on your mind. Share your thoughts, ask questions, and engage with our community in a friendly and respectful conversation.
#OnlineCommunity #CommunityGuidelines #HarassmentPrevention #ContentModeration #OnlineDiscussion
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Valley News: Vital Communities enters talks to save town listservs from shutdown. “Talks have started between Vital Communities and a group of Upper Valley residents about preserving the town-specific listservs before the nonprofit pulls the plug…. The organization’s announcement came after it announced last week that it would no longer support the 38 town-specific listservs — where […]
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TechCrunch: Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral. “After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature that allows users to stop their posts from appearing in the app’s main Discover feed. That algorithmic feed can currently surface any post on […]
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KMUW: In ‘Unread,’ a man rallies the forces of TikTok to finally learn to read. “His new book, Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok, chronicles how [Oliver] James became one of more than 45 million functionally illiterate adult Americans — and how he used the very tools of our post-literate society to finally master the complexities of reading.”
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Finger: Social network that never died
https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342472
#HackerNews #Finger #SocialNetwork #History #1971 #TechInnovation #OnlineCommunity
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New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”
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NiemanLab: Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try. “Chicago Public Media is already the parent nonprofit of two existing news sites, WBEZ and, since 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times. For chicago.com, though, the news org is teaming up with New_ Public, a nonprofit working to reimagine online public spaces, to launch a network of online […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/14/niemanlab-can-public-media-build-its-own-social-network-chicago-public-media-teams-up-with-new_-public-to-try/ -
https://www.europesays.com/3193097/ Agentic AI in India: Why Enterprises Are Stuck Between Pilots and Production — And How to Close the Gap | nasscom #AgenticAI #AgenticArtificialIntelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CommunityPortal #CommunitySupport #CommunityEvents #ConnectWithPeople #DiscussionBoard #Forums #IdeaSharing #InterestGroups #MemberCollaboration #OnlineCommunity #OnlineEngagement #SocialNetworking #VirtualCommunity
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LG Electronics’ Lifezip Community Holds First Home Lifestyle Fair
LG Electronics will host the first standalone home lifestyle fair for its home lifestyle community “Lifezip” at COEX…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #LGElectronics #COEX #homelifestylefair #LG #LGStanbyME2Max #Lifezip #onlinecommunity #pop-upstore
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I have been attending lectures, and working through several assessments. A lot of my thinking has centred on the practical and ethical complexity of supporting people well: care, boundaries, autonomy, responsibility, safety, and what it means to respond thoughtfully when there is no simple answer.
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I’ve also been reflecting on accessibility and participation in online spaces, especially what meaningful inclusion looks like beyond good intentions. Alongside that, I’ve been exploring future work possibilities and considering how to contribute in ways that are sustainable, useful, and aligned with my values.
It has been a full and mentally busy week, but there has been genuine progress. I’m trying to keep focused on the next task, make room for rest as well as momentum, and remember that steady progress still counts.
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Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
https://www.freeformatter.com/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211758
#HackerNews #internetculture #onlinecommunity #technews #socialmedia #trends
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What is a basic online video community platform that isn’t evil?
I’m thinking for musicians (bagpipers) to share their music with each other online in a private group. No social media. No ads. No AI surveillance. No tickets. No fees.
Needs pretty good latency management.
Just…a bunch of people getting together to play music for each other. Mostly for learners to practice performing.
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Today on NovaLandia: "I've Withdrawn From Second Life"
Since 2015, I've run a store in Second Life under the name, "REVOSA", and for a semi-shorter amount of time, "Ayashi Systems". And over that time, the stores have made continuous sales, every month, f...
https://mkultra.monster/secondlife/2026/07/28/an-sl-goodbye/