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Let's look at how to use the Retro app, whether it's free and whether it can compete with other social media apps.

TL;DR — I've been building the Social Resource Floor: an open blueprint for coordinating one person's access to basic survival resources — food, housing, energy, healthcare, and more — across many independent providers, so that reaching those resources is grounded in being human rather than in financial access. The first blueprint version is now complete: language-neutral schemas, prose specifications, a reference implementation, and a first adapter. This post is about the engineering choices behind it, and the reasons for each — how it stays a contract rather than a product, how it keeps personal data out of the coordination layer, why it binds to existing standards instead of inventing new ones, and how I check that the contracts are implementation-independent rather than just claiming they are. The problem the Floor is trying to help with Today, for most people, survival routes through financial access. To reach food, housing, energy, or healthcare you generally need money, and to hold or move money you need banking, employment, or purchasing power. Financial access has become the gate standing in front of the resources a person needs to stay alive. The goal of the Social Resource Floor is narrow and specific: to help make it so that financial status is not the condition that determines whether a person can reach the basic resources required to survive. It does not try to abolish money, banks, or markets — money stays a first-class resource and delivery method. It aims at one thing: a floor beneath which no person should fall, defined locally, reachable regardless of financial circumstances. That's the mission. Everything technical below exists to make that mission buildable by the institutions — governments, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives, community providers — that would actually run it, without asking any of them to give up their own systems or hand over their data. Where the Floor sits The delivery systems for social protection already exist and are stron

The feature is rolling out as the company open-sources more of its ranking algorithm.

X is expanding the open source code behind its 'For You' feed and launching new transparency tools that show users when its ranking systems have affected their accounts or posts.

The social media giant says it was time for a sharper and more modern look after a decade.

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider is joined by COO Rose Wang for a Disrupt Stage session on whether social media can start over and where Bluesky fits into that potential reboot.

A new lawsuit claims the Truth API violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.

The app was banned from government devices in 2022.

Thirteen authors joined a little-known Google AI study in 2022. Now they're facing backlash.

Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don't care about. If you follow me, I may be that […]

Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.

Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk's reign. In its place, it's launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible, creators must have at least 500 verified followers and at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in […]

X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.

Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.