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In-App Voice and Video Calling: Complete Implementation Guide for Product Managers

We've all been in the situation where we're typing out a message in an app and think, "actually, I just need to call this person." In-app voice and video calling is how you add this functionality to your product. With in-app video, your users can talk to each other without jumping to a different app.
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Social Media Moderation Guide: Tools, Examples, & Best Practices

Whether building a social app or managing a brand's online presence, moderation is key to balancing free expression with user safety, brand trust, and legal compliance. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping. The scale of moderating social media is massive. For example, Meta flagged and removed over 16 million content
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Content Moderation at Scale: Handling Millions of Messages Without Sacrificing UX

In 2021, Twitch streamers, mainly Black and LGBTQ+, were hit with a wave of "hate raids." These automated bot swarms dumped dozens of identical slurs and threats into chat rooms in bursts that lasted seconds. The median raid spewed ~48 messages in <16 s. 222 bots hit one channel at once. In the fallout, creators organised
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Chat Moderation 101

Chat is a powerful tool for building community, but without safeguards, it can quickly become a source of harm. Toxic behavior, spam, and abuse can erode user trust in seconds. That's where chat moderation comes in: it protects users, preserves the integrity of your platform, and ensures conversations remain safe and constructive. What Is Chat
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In-App Surveys: A Comprehensive Playbook

Within 30 days of installing an app, roughly 97% of users uninstall it or become inactive. Instead of trying to guess why users abandon an app, you can ask them directly by conducting surveys inside the app. This gives them a voice in the moments that matter, so organizations can move beyond assumptions and improve
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Alpha Release: Activity Feeds v3

Apps use Stream's Activity Feeds API with hundreds to millions of users. Today, we're excited to share the third iteration of our Feeds API, Feeds v3, which builds on our scalability and expands our Activity Feeds API to include popular community features like for-you feeds, client-side SDKs, comments, activity expiration, and more—all while being 30%
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Feature Announcement: Moderation Rule Builder

Moderating user-generated content at scale is difficult, especially as harmful behavior patterns evolve. Rule Builder provides a new way to define complex moderation logic without writing a single line of code. What is Rule Builder? Rule Builder is a new dashboard feature within Stream's AI Moderation platform that lets you: Define moderation rules based on
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A Complete Guide to Audio and Voice Moderation

Imagine you're happily playing PUBG. The circle is closing; your team still has a chance of a chicken dinner, until you get sniped. Then it starts. A stream of toxic voice chat erupts from a teammate. Slurs and threats that destroy the match. You hit mute, but the damage is done. This scenario plays out
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MirrorFly Alternatives – Comparing the Top 8 Competitors

If you're building real-time communication into your app, you've likely come across MirrorFly. It's one of the few platforms offering both cloud and self-hosted SDKs for chat, voice and video, and activity feeds, making it a popular choice for teams with strict compliance, branding, or infrastructure requirements. But finding the right communication provider isn't easy.
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