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What started as simple text-based chat rooms has exploded into a complex ecosystem of real-time interactions: livestreams with thousands of concurrent viewers, multiplayer games with audio rooms, dating apps with video calls, customer support chats, creator economy platforms, and virtual reality spaces where communication happens through gestures and proximity. This evolution presents a fundamental challenge

TikTok is one of the most popular apps in the world, ranking as the second most downloaded app globally. Its rapid rise is fueled by high engagement rates, averaging 2.80% in the first half of 2025 and still climbing. Numbers like these explain why so many teams want to build TikTok-style feeds, not just to

This guide walks you through how to get up and running with Stream's AI Moderation product: enabling moderation in your project, configuring policies, testing your setup, and building workflows that help your team stay ahead of harmful content. What This Tutorial Covers In this tutorial, you'll learn how to: Set up your project and choose

Content moderation has undergone a major shift in recent years.  What once felt like an opaque black box to users has steadily moved toward openness, clarity, and accountability. Historically, a user who had content removed or an account restricted rarely received meaningful information about why the decision happened, who made it, or whether it could

There was a time when the only weapon in the chat moderator's arsenal was a simple keyword list. You would be adding new words and phrases to your filters as they came up, always in reactive mode. Maybe you have regexes to help. Perhaps you build out a team. But you're always chasing the latest

In today's economic climate, every dollar counts. Organizations are under pressure to maximize ROI on their tech stack and scrutinize vendor relationships.  Specifically in the in-app chat service market, there has been a big shift away from technology that is not economically priced and does not effectively scale to meet business requirements. When considering a

These days, low-latency video streaming is so deeply embedded in current culture that, for those accustomed to TikTok, Twitch, YouTube, or even straightforward video chats, the idea that video could be anything other than millisecond-perfect seems ridiculous. Of course, all those platforms, and really the entire concept of video streaming and video chat, are only

"Discord's AutoMod feature is amazing! How did we get by before that was a thing..." -Reddit user croc122 If you've ever set up a community online, even a small one, you'll have seen the bad side of people. "croc122" knows this. It's not just the flame wars and toxic comments that cause problems; it's also