Best of Social Media — 2025
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Hacker News·49w
Social Media via SSH
itter.sh is a unique SSH-based micro-blogging platform tailored for terminal enthusiasts who prefer simplicity over web interfaces. Users can register and log in using SSH keys, post short messages called 'eets', and interact with others through commands similar to traditional social media features. The platform emphasizes minimalism, nostalgia, and a break from algorithm-driven content.
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Christian Heilmann·47w
Nothing makes me want to hire someone less than them showing an open to work badge
The article discusses the perception of LinkedIn's 'open to work' badge, arguing against the notion that it signals desperation. Instead, it is seen as a tool for clear communication, facilitating professional connections and indicating availability. The piece highlights the benefits of using LinkedIn for professional networking and dismisses stereotypes associated with the badge.
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daily.dev Changelog·33w
We finally gave your posts what they deserve
Daily.dev has launched post analytics, allowing users to track their content performance with detailed metrics including impressions, engagement, reputation gains, and follower growth. The new analytics dashboard provides insights into post reach, peak performance times, and audience engagement to help creators understand what content works and optimize their posting strategy.
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CodeHead·50w
How LinkedIn Became The CRINGIEST Professional Platform
LinkedIn has transformed from a professional networking platform to a quasi-social media site where posts often resemble personal diaries or emotional confessionals. Users frequently share mundane life events, turning them into exaggerated lessons in leadership or perseverance. This has led to an increase in cringeworthy content and engagement farming, with LinkedIn influencers gaining traction by exploiting emotional storytelling.
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The Register·29w
Australia asks GitHub if it's a dangerous social network
Australia's eSafety Commissioner is investigating whether GitHub qualifies as a social network under new legislation that will ban under-16s from certain social media platforms starting December 10th. While GitHub's primary purpose isn't social interaction, it does allow comments, user interactions, and content hosting through features like GitHub Pages, potentially making it subject to the new restrictions. The legislation requires platforms to self-assess against specific criteria including enabling social interaction, allowing user linking, and hosting user-generated content.
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Tinashe Mutuswa·38w
'Influencer' who garnered 165k followers while 'enjoying Wimbledon' is revealed as an AI creation
An AI-generated Instagram influencer named Mia Zelu fooled 165,000 followers into believing she was a real person attending Wimbledon. The fake account garnered over 40,000 likes on posts showing her at the tennis tournament, even deceiving celebrities like cricketer Rishabh Pant. Despite being labeled as an 'AI storyteller' in her profile, many followers continue to interact with the account as if she were real, highlighting the sophistication of AI-generated personas and their potential to deceive social media users.
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Medium·1y
Dopamine addiction: the obscure side of the seeking-reward loop
Our constant exposure to instant gratification through technology has led to dopamine addiction, causing negative impacts on mental health. Social media and other digital platforms use algorithms to exploit dopamine release, fostering dependency. Studies show significant mental health risks, particularly among teens. Solutions such as digital detox practices and minimalist apps are being developed to counteract these effects.
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TechCrunch·1y
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Meta's recent decision to relax its content moderation policies and remove its third-party fact-checking system has led to a surge in users searching for ways to delete their Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts. The post provides detailed instructions on how to download personal data from Facebook and Instagram before deletion and outlines the steps for permanently deleting accounts on these platforms.
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ByteByteGo·1y
Bluesky: The Decentralized Social Media App with 30 Million Users
Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform built on the AT Protocol, designed to give users greater control over their data, identity, and content interaction. It offers modular services for identity retention, account migration, and customizable content experiences and has close to 30 million users. Bluesky’s federated architecture includes Personal Data Servers, Relays, and App Views to manage data, ensure content discoverability, and maintain moderation. This setup aims to solve common issues in other decentralized networks and push for transparency and user autonomy.
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AI·1y
Out of 120 AI automation workflow, these 4 were the most popular
Rantir.com shared the top four most popular AI automation workflows from 2024. These include an autonomous AI crawler, mass production of YouTube video summaries, Gmail/Outlook AI auto-responders, and an AI-based question and answer system for PDF documents. Rantir is progressing and offering self-hosting options.
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Bluesky quickly sold out of the t-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made headlines at SXSW by wearing a t-shirt with the Latin phrase 'Mundus sine Caesaribus' (a world without Caesars) aimed at Mark Zuckerberg. The t-shirt quickly sold out as Bluesky users rushed to buy it. This move reflects Bluesky's commitment to decentralized and open-source social media, emphasizing user and developer autonomy over corporate control.
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The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media platforms are increasingly flooded with AI-generated spam, bot accounts, and synthetic content that drowns out genuine human interaction. Engagement rates are plummeting as users grow exhausted with endless feeds of meaningless content optimized for clicks rather than connection. The traditional social media model is fragmenting as people migrate to smaller, private communities like Discord servers, group chats, and federated platforms. The future points toward decentralized, publicly governed digital spaces with transparent algorithms, user choice in content curation, and design patterns that prioritize intention over compulsive scrolling.
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How Meta Built Threads to Support 100 Million Signups in 5 Days
Meta's Threads platform achieved a rapid growth of 100 million signups by leveraging existing, robust infrastructures like ZippyDB and Async. ZippyDB, a distributed key-value store, ensured scalability and strong consistency, while Async, a serverless computing engine, handled trillions of background tasks to support seamless user experiences. These systems, honed by Meta's experience with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, allowed Threads to scale effortlessly without the need for bespoke solutions.
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TikTok Won. Now Everything Is 60 Seconds.
TikTok has fundamentally transformed digital culture by industrializing human attention through sophisticated algorithmic optimization. The platform's instant learning from micro-behaviors creates an uncannily perceptive recommendation system that other platforms are now copying. This shift is reshaping everything from news delivery to entertainment, education, and cultural consumption, turning content creation into hyper-specialized niches optimized for algorithmic engagement. While providing immediate satisfaction and personalized content, this model trades away sustained attention, serendipitous discovery, and the ability to engage with complex ideas that don't offer instant rewards.
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Dev Squad·1y
Should we enable post approval? ⚠️
The group, now exceeding 7,000 members, is experiencing issues with members posting random and promotional content without context. The discussion is centered around whether implementing post approval could help manage and regulate the content being posted.
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Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Meta has decided to end its use of independent fact-checkers and shift to a community notes model for content moderation. This decision, amid societal pressures and ongoing misinformation issues, raises concerns about the effectiveness and neutrality of such a system. The shift may result in a vacuum that could be exploited by bad-faith actors, potentially reshaping what constitutes acceptable speech on the platform. The move underscores the need for individual diligence in verifying information and the importance of academic research in understanding misinformation dynamics.
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Mozilla·34w
What I learned when I stopped posting my life online, from a former influencer
A former fashion blogger shares insights from stepping away from social media influence work. Key lessons include discovering that unstaged photos are more authentic, having more time for genuine hobbies, developing personal style independent of trends, and learning what activities bring real satisfaction versus those done for content. The author describes the mental shift from constant curation to living authentically, eventually returning online with clearer boundaries between content creation as work versus lifestyle.
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Dev Tools·46w
Create Stunning Social Media Posts in Seconds – Free, Open Source & PNG-Ready!
Discover a new open-source tool designed to create visually appealing social media posts quickly. It aims to enhance engagement on platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter by offering instant post templates. Users are encouraged to contribute ideas and improvements.
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Metadata·18w
Brainrot
Brainrot is a self-deprecating slang language born from TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reddit memes that spreads globally at unprecedented speed. Unlike traditional slang that stayed local, brainrot terms like 'cooked,' 'aura,' and 'NPC' mutate rapidly and have even inspired a programming language. Despite concerns about Gen Z and Gen Alpha, this generation demonstrates sharp self-mocking humor, intense focus on what matters to them, and genuine inclusivity. Their culture may appear chaotic from the outside, but they're adapting quickly, learning publicly, and forming real connections around shared interests.
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CSS-Tricks·51w
The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org
Cohost.org, a niche social media site that went public in June 2022 and shut down in September 2024, had a devoted user base of creatives who leveraged its permissive HTML sanitizer to perform unique CSS tricks. Notable techniques included 'width-hacking' using the <details> and <summary> tags, and creative use of SVG animations. Despite its short lifespan, Cohost delivered a unique posting experience free from advertisements and follower counts.
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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
An iOS developer experiments with spending a full week focused on marketing and social media promotion instead of coding new features for their fitness app. The week involved creating Instagram content, cold messaging studios and trainers, and meeting with fitness industry influencers. Key insights include the surprising difficulty of content creation, the effectiveness of direct outreach, and how marketing opens doors that code alone cannot.
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Overreacted·29w
Open Social — overreacted
Explores the concept of "open social" through the AT Protocol, drawing parallels between how open source transformed software development and how decentralized social networks could transform social media. The protocol enables users to own their social data in personal repositories while still enabling aggregation features like feeds and notifications. Users can migrate between platforms without losing their social graph, and applications can interoperate by sharing data formats. This approach aims to solve the vendor lock-in problem of current social media platforms where user data becomes trapped in proprietary databases.
