@carmscrolls: Your weekly dose of tech and cultural news across social media. 🎥 Features on Instagram (but where the rev share!?) 👾 Companies trying to create environments where AI bots can’t scrape. 🤑 VC firms like Slow Ventures investing in content creators, and Newspress from Johnny and Iz Harris just closing a $12M funding round. ‼️@Dictionary.com christening “maxxing” as the word of the year (a sign we’ve all had too much of everything). 🍰 Plus the economics of seasonal treats (@Sarah Bartnicka) and “medium treats” (Mara Dettmann) #longformcontent #littletreat #instagramfeatures #technews #socialmediaupdates

Aliya Matchett 🇨🇦 :

I HATE APPS 🙃 I miss browser days tbh

𝕬𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖆 ࣪˖ ִִֶ 🥀 ་༘࿐ :

im not downloading a fck ton of apps

jury :

I miss forums so much. slow paced human messaging. not too slow, but slow enough.

Puddlejumper :

Oh So that’s my Reddit said you now need an account to view posts. AI loves to pull from Reddit 👀

Jordan :

I’m all for long-form content as long as people don’t use ai to write their scripts for them cause some of these one minute long TikTok’s are hard to listen to with the ai written scripts

knowone :

You’re so smart and I love your content

Mother :

IG trying to become Substack and YT 🫠

Rikitikitok :

I really like every single video you post. Clean, always informative and not BS.

Makersbar :

VCs backing creators and companies blocking AI scrapers both point to the same question: who owns the value of content. Interesting week for that debate.

JOE Houde :

Anti-scraping also drove Amazon to not include what I actually bought when they send me a shipping update.

Midlife & Mocktails :

Can you explain the website piece “will become a service for agents”? I have a very popular website that has seen a massive reduction in traffic because of AI and not sure what to do about it.

FalkFlower :

It’s interesting that Instagram is returning to long-form video when it already experimented with it back in 2018 with IGTV

Jonathan Bell3616 :

We built in aggressive bot blocking on Jabburr from day 1 to stop Ai crawlers. It was a decision based on providing privacy and a quality user experience. Should have been a no-brainer for every company.

eefa :

I’d be so curious about what your favourite/most trusted go to places of reporting for news on tech and the internet are! apologies if you’ve shared this before and I just haven’t dug in!

AJ :

did reddit not join up with Google as it's forum of choice?

Kelseykeewrites :

IG is making moves towards YT…

murfyj :

Woah, slow down there... websites will be for agents, apps will be the thing humans connect with... that's a massive shift for businesses, esp SMEs 😏

Essie Gong-Henny :

venture capital is going record label on influencers - i hope content creators start their guild/union to protect themselves

Steven Parker 🇨🇦🏒 :

JulieM :

J’adore ton contenu. Merci!

aretizoi :

I know it takes more production effort but would love to watch these videos of yours on a more long-form version on YouTube :)

Selena Nelson :

Johnny Harris >>>>>

Mia | Pó/de curiosidade :

this is funny because my practical thought is "if there is a website, I won't install the app" apps are kinda annoying

whelmed Reviews :

Known no.3 for a while

Uros :

Very good take, and yeah you'll probably pay to access human data, both for training and mental health purposes.