Stop Using Social Media Apps. The Web Version Is Often Better
[ad_1] I can scroll through my timeline of choice whenever I want, which is a miracle of technology. The downside: I do so, a lot, even when I wish I…
Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
[ad_1] Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I bet Musk won’t implement it, though, because his snowflake…
How to Get Started on Mastodon
[ad_1] The big difference, though, is the content warning system. This is a subtle thing to grasp but an important one. The early culture of the Fediverse and Mastodon were…
How to Get Slack’s Paid Features for Free
[ad_1] Slack is worth paying for … if you’re a company. If you’re using Slack for an online community, though, you should probably just stick with the free version. That’s…
How to Find Your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
[ad_1] Now you can scroll through tweets from people you follow who have mentioned Mastodon, most of whom will also include a link to their page. Click the “Latest” tab…
All the Free Resources You Can Find at Your Library
[ad_1] If libraries didn’t already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity…
How to Make Slack Look and Feel Like Discord
[ad_1] Discord is fun. Slack usually isn’t. I’m not saying Slack doesn’t try to be fun, because it does—all of the in-app copy reads like a comedy routine, for example—but…
How to Make Discord Look and Feel Like Slack
[ad_1] Slack recently made a few changes to its free plan, limiting message archives to the past 90 days instead of the previous limit of 10,000 messages. There are ways…
‘We Are the Asteroid’: The Case for Hope Amid Climate Fears
[ad_1] Earth’s atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there’s…
How to Upload Custom Emoji in Slack
[ad_1] I used to work for a company that had a few thousand custom emoji in Slack, which I admit got annoying—certain managers overused them to the point where I…
The Best Substack Alternatives | WIRED
[ad_1] If your plan is to run a newsletter as a hobby, Substack is perfect—it’s free, easy to set up, and makes sending out emails and building a subscriber base…
How to Hide the News Widgets in Windows 10 and 11
[ad_1] You’ll notice a few things in this screenshot. First, the application shows the current temperature as a tray icon—but you can see an icon representing current conditions instead. Second,…
How to Mute Retweets on Twitter
[ad_1] In 2012 people joked that Twitter was a place to talk about what you had for lunch. In 2022 the joke is that it’s a place to scroll when…