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12 predictions for the consumer internet in 2021

The Verge

I like to end each year by surveying you all about your predictions for social networks and the broader consumer internet in the 12 months to come. I asked you what you thought was going to happen on the consumer internet in 2021: product changes, breakout apps, regulation, lawsuits, culture trends, and more.

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Why some Palestinians believe social media companies are suppressing their posts

Vox

Shadowbanning dates back to the early days of the internet. | Algospeak” is an evasion tactic for automated moderation on social media, where users create new words to use in place of keywords that might get picked up by AI -powered filters. Vox; MirageC/Getty Images Shadowbanning and the Israel-Hamas war, explained.

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Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward

The Verge

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The review follows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussing Bluesky earlier this month, when he called it a “standard for the public conversation layer of the internet.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Microsoft to remove AltspaceVR social hubs and tighten up safety and moderation

The Verge

Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR and requiring users to log into the virtual reality app using a Microsoft account. The social hubs in AltspaceVR were designed “to help foster new friendships” and act as an entry point to get familiar with AltspaceVR itself. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR in 2017.

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What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021

Vox

The lists are, naturally, all over the place, but a few common themes rose to the top, offering a glimpse of what it was really like to be an American in 2021. Depending on your vantage point, 2021 was either the year that cryptocurrency grew up into a viable financial asset, was shown to be a scam, or simply when it became mainstream.

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The metaverse: Not dead yet

Computerworld Vertical IT

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations.

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The Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

Summary: I'm attend the Hyperledger Global Forum this last week–all virtual. I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. An overlay network comprises virtual links that correspond to a path in the underlying network.