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Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.

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I've recently decided to switch out my Playstore apps for Open Source Apps as they're usually Ad Free and much less bloated. Can we use this thread to help people find open source android apps?...

Summary: • Gmail's 'Help Me Write' AI feature can now draft automated messages in Gmail, text messages and Google apps. • The Help Me Write feature expands on the "Smart Compose" and "Smart Reply" features already offered by Gmail. • Users can further edit the email manually or send it as is once drafted.

Thousands of Reddit communities are still dark in protest of the API changes that are forcing some third-party developers to shut down their apps. It’s a startling change for many members of the Reddit community, but it’s one that Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tells The Verge that he’s fine with making. Those third-party apps,...

"The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago....

I find these fascinating so I'm just doing a quick lil check on whether there'd be enough people interested in consuming/producing content for such a thing....

I'm almost ready with my lemmy instance server. Now what are some steps that are definitly worth doing after setup?...

Twitch is introducing a new “Partner Plus” program that will give streamers an increased 70 percent of the share of their subscription revenues — up to the first $100,000 brought in each year — with Twitch taking the other 30 percent....

An early prototype suffered from big issues.

“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”

Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, according to a top US cybersecurity agency.

As much as there is plenty of new people joining the threadiverse, the real wave starts today, with thousands of subreddits going dark....

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!