StrawberrySocial Turns 10 + April 2025 Social Media & Online Safety Updates
Written By:Rebecca Fitzgerald
April 9, 2025 
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We’re celebrating a major milestone this month – StrawberrySocial is 10 years old! A whole decade of helping organisations create safer, stronger, and more supportive online communities. Whether you’ve been with us from the start or recently joined, thank you for being part of our journey.
Here are the latest developments in community engagement, trust and safety, and platform features, along with some free resources to support your work. Whether you’re focused on social media strategy, safeguarding, or community building, here’s what’s worth knowing this month.
Here are the latest developments in community engagement, trust and safety, and platform features, along with some free resources to support your work. Whether you’re focused on social media strategy, safeguarding, or community building, here’s what’s worth knowing this month.
🌱Community Building & Engagement
📊 StrawberrySocial: 10 Years of Impact in Social Media [Infographic]
Explore our journey and the positive impact we’ve made over the past decade in our new visual roundup.
📅 Best Times to Post on Social Media in 2025
New data reveals when your content is most likely to land well across different platforms. Helping you cut through the noise.
New data reveals when your content is most likely to land well across different platforms. Helping you cut through the noise.
📈 Reddit’s Rising Value in Niche Communities
New research highlights how Reddit is becoming an increasingly valuable space for meaningful, topic-driven engagement, particularly around specialist subjects.
New research highlights how Reddit is becoming an increasingly valuable space for meaningful, topic-driven engagement, particularly around specialist subjects.
🔐Trust & Safety
🚫 Adolescence Co-Creator Calls for Under-16 Smartphone Ban
A provocative new call for regulation sparks debate about the role of tech in young people’s lives.
A provocative new call for regulation sparks debate about the role of tech in young people’s lives.
😡 Deepfake Nudes Are a Growing Threat for Youth
Recent studies reveal the alarming rise in AI-generated explicit imagery – and what’s needed to counter it.
Recent studies reveal the alarming rise in AI-generated explicit imagery – and what’s needed to counter it.
🧠 Content Moderation: A 21st Century Hazardous Job
The psychological toll of content moderation is gaining more attention. Here’s why this work needs stronger protections and recognition.
The psychological toll of content moderation is gaining more attention. Here’s why this work needs stronger protections and recognition.
🇬🇧 Online Safety Act: New Rules for UK Tech Firms
The UK government now requires platforms to act on illegal harms. What this means for social media teams and digital leads.
The UK government now requires platforms to act on illegal harms. What this means for social media teams and digital leads.
🛡️ TikTok Adds New Teen Safety Features
‘Time Away’ and improved ‘Family Pairing’ options are rolling out to help teens manage their screen time and stay safer online.
‘Time Away’ and improved ‘Family Pairing’ options are rolling out to help teens manage their screen time and stay safer online.
🔧 Platform Updates
🔁 Instagram to Add Re-Posts
Re-sharing is coming natively to help boost content visibility and engagement.
Re-sharing is coming natively to help boost content visibility and engagement.
🎥 X Introduces Video Reaction Replies
A new way to engage with posts through video, aiming to enhance creator interaction.
A new way to engage with posts through video, aiming to enhance creator interaction.
📉 Instagram Removes Notes from Feed and Reels
A quiet rollback of a once-hyped feature – will anyone miss them?
A quiet rollback of a once-hyped feature – will anyone miss them?
⏸️ YouTube Adds Break Options for Live Streamers
Better wellbeing tools are coming to live broadcasting.
Better wellbeing tools are coming to live broadcasting.
📊 LinkedIn Campaign Manager Gets a Boost
New features promise better control and reporting for advertisers.
New features promise better control and reporting for advertisers.
💬 Threads Rolls Out Follower-Only Replies & Quote Posts
More tools for managing interactions and building focused conversations.
More tools for managing interactions and building focused conversations.
👥 Facebook Reintroduces Friends-Only Feed Tab
Back to basics – a shift toward closer-knit updates.
Back to basics – a shift toward closer-knit updates.
🎁 Free Resources
📚 Accessible Communications Library
A handy starting point for making your social media and comms more inclusive.
A handy starting point for making your social media and comms more inclusive.
🛡️ Online Safety Resources Library
Includes our free Online Safety Checklist to help protect your team and community.
Includes our free Online Safety Checklist to help protect your team and community.
🔍 Free Instagram SEO Tool
Optimise your profile and posts to get discovered more easily on Instagram.
Optimise your profile and posts to get discovered more easily on Instagram.
As always, we’ll continue monitoring platform, policy, and user behaviour changes, and what that means for those of us working on the front lines of digital communities. If you’re looking for a trusted partner in moderation, safeguarding, or strategic community support, get in touch with our team.
If you’d like these updates delivered straight to your inbox each month, you can sign up for the StrawberrySocial newsletter here. Here’s to the next 10 years of safe, engaged, and meaningful social spaces.