#sharingcontent — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sharingcontent, aggregated by home.social.
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Lifehacker: How to Stop Social Media Platforms From Tracking You When You Share Posts. “When you hit the share button on social media apps such as Instagram, Facebook, or Threads, these sites tack on a tracker to the link you’re sharing. This tracker means that Instagram can tell who you’ve shared the link with, and it likely uses this information to further optimize its algorithm for ads. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/lifehacker-how-to-stop-social-media-platforms-from-tracking-you-when-you-share-posts/ -
Mastodon Blog: A new Share button. “The distributed nature of the network is the greatest strength of Mastodon, but it also means that having a share button that takes you to the ‘correct’ Mastodon server for your account, is a lot more involved than a simple hyperlink. Third party solutions have existed before now, but none of them have become ubiquitous, or easy to discover for website […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/mastodon-blog-a-new-share-button/ -
Ars Technica: He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement. “The more that [Ian] Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became. Taking to then-Twitter, he posted a series of seven tweets over a couple days that linked to YouTube videos that Proctorio hosted in its help center.”