@david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net IDK, some people like to use their social media feeds as soapboxes or megaphones, others as public(-ish) speaker phones (I know I tend to oscillate between these two extremes myself).

Speaking for myself, I tend to be more of a lurker on most social platforms, but something about twtxt makes me want to engage with the people here. Maybe it’s the quality of the individuals (❤️), or the relatively laid-back pace here compared to the attention economies of other platforms…IDK what it is, but I like it. 🙂

Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street
Trump Media has officially launched its $100,000-per-month data feed giving trading firms machine-readable access to Truth Social posts milliseconds before the public. According to Fortune, five Wall Street firms have already signed up for the service, which “would generate about $500,000 in monthly revenue, or $6 million annually … ⌘ Read more

As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide ‘SCREEN’ Act
New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors “will only be shown content from other accounts … ⌘ Read more

Most Australian Teens Still On Social Media Three Months After Ban
More than 81% of Australian children ages 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the country’s under-16 ban took effect, with roughly half saying platforms never checked their age. Reuters reports: In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequen … ⌘ Read more

LinkedIn Introduces a ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post “seems like AI slop,” according to 404 Media’s own tests. If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen u … ⌘ Read more

@chrisgarrod@twtpub.com Hello 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🙌

Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers
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Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU’s Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the ch … ⌘ Read more

‘Inside the Dystopian World of Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown’
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country’s political speech laws “unusually stringent for an EU member state.”
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Me … ⌘ Read more

Also a “Publish who I follow” toggle: writes # follow = + # following = N into your feed like yarnd does. Off by default (it is your social graph 🤔), and only on the GitHub/Gitea backends for now where the app owns the feed file. twtd next 🤞

Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine
President Trump threatened a “substantial” new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1 billion over alleged illegal trade practices. “The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The penalties will be entirely reve … ⌘ Read more

@thoshi@yarn.thoshis.net Welcome to the Yarn.social / Twtxt ecosystem 🙌

Falls sich hier noch jemand fragte, was genau mein Humor ist:

https://sueden.social/@DerSash/112366647794794897

Das Gegenteil von Erbse ist Verdiense.

@ponderpoints@twtpub.com Welcome to Yarn.social 👋 Interesting video, I actually watched it all the way through, riverting stuff really and quite well put together. The idea of “subjective experience” is a rather complicated thing to describe and you’re right, how do we even know we have them? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah it’s one of the fundamental principles of Yarn social and everything that I’ve poured into the ecosystem that we’ve collectively built here over the last, What is it six or seven years now?

🥳 NEW FEED: @tymbook@social.tymbook.com

Say hello to the Twtxt Social Graph 😅 #Twtxt #social #Graph

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I can’t take credit for that word, that was a @bender@twtxt.net original. However, I did hashtag it on Masto in hopes of possibly inspiring someone to learn about what truly decentralized social media looks like (and maybe even come join us). 😊

Hello everyone ! 👋 Behold I bring you (after many years) the launch of the Twtxt App 😅 – Ye, this is a Desktop and Mobile app built as a Progressive Web App (PWA) using a little framework (Swag) I put together iafter some experiments @xuu@txt.sour.is and I did in Go and HTMX and Service Workers.

The App is offline-first and supports installing to Desktop and Mobile (add to Home screen) and supports a number of publishing backends, including Yarn.social’s yarnd Pod, Github, Codeberg/Gitea, and a little tiny twtd Twtxt server (See: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtd).

Please try it out, no need for any account(s) or such, works with your existing feed(s) (as long as the publishing backends work well enough for you!). Please give me feedback! 🙏

Also, did you know the Twtxt Search Engine is back? 🎉

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.

( https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116862294937117528 )

🥳 NEW FEED: @Yarn@yarn.social

@’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com Welcome to Twtxt / Yarn.social 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, you live in “the zone”: https://social.bund.de/@DeutscherWetterdienst/116839789079697685

Even the tram tracks give up in this heat: https://chaos.social/@HonkHase/116826341363421229

Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests
Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. “And in East Asia’s test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student’s future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahead of the problem.”

Already, countries are stepping up inspections … ⌘ Read more

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh! You’re running Yarn.social’s yarnd? 😅 That’s why I was able to see your reply so quickly/easily ! Nice! And welcome! 🙏

UK Considers Forcing Social Media Firms To Prioritize Trusted News
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Following User Outcry, AMD Reinstates Memory Encryption In Consumer CPUs
Last week, AMD was found to have stripped memory encryption from its consumer CPUs without any warning or notice. Now, following a wave of backlash on social media, the chipmaker has now reinstated the protection, though it still hasn’t explained why the safeguard was disabled in the first place. Ars Technica reports: Following the r … ⌘ Read more

UK Official Promises Statements ‘Around VPNs’ and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media
PC Gamer reports:

The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Technology Secretary … ⌘ Read more

Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by R … ⌘ Read more

Commodore’s Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers
Commodore has unveiled the Callback 8020, a $499 Sailfish OS flip phone that runs most Android apps but deliberately blocks social media, browsers, email, and workplace apps to discourage doomscrolling. The “not dumb dumbphone” still supports messaging, music, maps, ridesharing, hotspots, a removable battery … ⌘ Read more

Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from NBC News: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a sweeping ban on social media use for those under 16, joining other countries around the world seeking to protect children online. “It’s a big step for our country,” Starmer said in a recorded video message released Monday. “Social media is maki … ⌘ Read more

UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids’ Brains
UK’s Members of Parliament (MP) were “looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children’s brains,” writes The Register — but they got “a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it.”

Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Commit … ⌘ Read more

À La Réunion, la réduction drastique des contrats aidés pourrait causer un séisme social
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Tom Cruise’s Steven Spielberg Popcorn Bucket Is Better Than Disclosure Day’s Official Vessel
Tom Cruise recently checked out the latest Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day. While at a screening, Cruise showed off his special Spielberg-themed popcorn bucket, an item that unironically was better than the official one from the movie. Cruise recently took to social media to share some photos of himself at a screening for the mov … ⌘ Read more

SpaceX: la première introduction en Bourse techno-fasciste de l’histoire
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Brad Pitt’s Dog Movie Was Just Spoiled & Fans Aren’t Mad About It
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Тръмп: Фалшиви новини са разпространените от Иран условия за споразумение

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И Канада забранява социалните мрежи за деца до 16 години

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Senior Liberal warns party to stop talking about One Nation as Hanson hits back at PM
The One Nation leader posted a report about its fundraising campaign on social media after Albanese questioned its veracity, Hanson saying it proved the money was “ridgy-didge”. ⌘ Read more

Hanson scoffs at Albanese’s scepticism of One Nation fundraising, releases audit
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Study Links Smartphones With Declining Fertility Rates
Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrates by reducing in-person social interaction, sexual frequency, and other conditions tied to unintended pregnancies. “One of the studies published in May is called ‘The Collapse of Teen Fertility in the Digital Era’ and the other, published just Monday, is titled ‘Is the iPhone Birth C … ⌘ Read more

Jesse Eisenberg Fans Have the Same Reactions To The Social Reckoning Trailer
The first teaser trailer for The Social Reckoning recently hit the internet, and Jesse Eisenberg’s fans all seem to share the same reaction. Eisenberg famously played Mark Zuckerberg in 2010’s The Social Network, and Succession star Jeremy Strong will play the tech mogul in the upcoming sequel. Although the trailer promises another intense installment, fans […]

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Licenciements chez Nespresso: «On se sent insultés, c’est une trahison»
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Young teens risk mental health harm after one year of social media use
A study that tracked teenagers for a decade found a decline in their wellbeing from time online – but it also provides a critical window for intervention. ⌘ Read more

Le «tour de passe-passe» à 50 millions d’euros de Mutares dans les comptes de son usine de Bordeaux
Le sulfureux fonds allemand a retiré plusieurs dizaines de millions d’euros des caisses de l’ex-usine Ford de Blanquefort, qu’il a reprise en 2023 et qui emploie encore plus de 200 personnes. Les dirigeants de Mutares jurent qu’il ne s’agit que d’un prélèvement temporaire. ⌘ Read more

Dans les pays hôtes du Mondial 2026, la société se mobilise contre les injustices qui l’accompagnent
Coûteuse pour les pays qui l’accueillent, socialement excluante, la compétition qui démarre jeudi 11 juin provoque aussi des indignations citoyennes, qui dénoncent des politiques discriminatoires et déconnectées des besoins réels de la population. ⌘ Read more

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