A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world

The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most ...
TechCrunch

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

With the TikTok deadline to sell its U.S. operations now just two days away, a new decentralized social media app launched its beta to the public on Tuesday. Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to ...
Yahoo

I love to mindlessly scroll social media. Then I tried an app that made me take steps to get screen time.

Steppin blocks me from my go-to apps unless I get my steps in. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kerry Justich/Yahoo News) In a digital world where people track everything from calories to ...
Techno-Science.net

Social Media Screenshot Alert: Apps That Notify Users

Snapchat alerts users for all chat screenshots. Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger do so only with disappearing messages. Telegram and Signal restrict or block screenshots in secret chats. WhatsApp ...