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I never enjoyed the experience of reading long threads on Twitter (the same goes for X), and I don’t think any of its successors have done a particularly great job making them easier to read. Since Bluesky is the preferred home of X-pats , I’ve been reading a number of lengthy threads there, and after…

From security and privacy concerns to good old-fashioned cringe, there are all kinds of reasons you might want to delete your old social media posts. And there are plenty of tools for the job out there. The problem: most tend to focus on one or two social media networks. Redact , however, is a paid…

If you read enough tech news on the internet, you’re probably used to seeing the same advice over and over again: Update your software to the latest version as soon as possible. This advice is repeated often, because, for the most part, it’s sound—updates not only give you access to the latest features, but also…

Now more than ever, I rely on my silly little podcasts to disassociate through my days, and yesterday, that got a little easier. Pocket Casts—Lifehacker’s pick for the most full-featured and user-friendly podcast app on the scene , and my own auditory lifeline for the last half-decade or so—has made its web streaming and desktop…

In the wake of the controversy surrounding PayPal’s Honey browser extension , Google Chrome has updated its policies to ban the practices that the extension was observed to be engaging in. Chrome’s updated extension policies for affiliate ads includes wording that seems to be a direct response to many of the tactics Honey was accused…

Bluesky’s latest update adds a few more useful options to its impressive arsenal of anti-harassment tools . The changes make it easier to hide direct messages (DMs) from strangers, and to mute accounts even faster. You don’t need to do anything to receive these features, too. As long as you’re using the latest version of…

When it comes to your important data, you should always have a backup. And then a backup of that backup. Cloud storage services shouldn’t be your whole strategy here, but they can help with that. Sometimes, you just don’t have enough physical space to store all the photos you’ve taken over your life, or all…

YouTube’s recent price hike has clearly left a hole in the market. If you want a fully ad-free YouTube experience, you currently need to pay $13.99/month (up from $11.99) or use a third-party workaround . But now, YouTube has a compromise. The service’s new Premium Lite plan comes in at $7.99/month ($6 cheaper) and is…

Digg, the dominant link aggregator of the mid-2000s, is attempting yet another comeback. Kevin Rose, one of Digg’s original founders, has acquired the brand name for an undisclosed sum and is teaming up with Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian to build a new-ish social network. The plan was announced this morning in articles on Techcrunch and…