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With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ (www.wired.com)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind 110 points 4 days ago (13 children)

This is the third story I've seen today that was basically "Tiktok users flee service to other chinese service app you've never heard of"

So basically the usa banned tiktok, and now there's 3 other tiktoks, all connecting the same amount of data for china, just through 3 different services instead of 1.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

[Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there's just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

If they addressed the general problem it would also affect US social media platforms and they want to continue doing that when American companies do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Due to the network effect, having a hundred apps instead of one is a big negative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, the law is broad enough that it could target these other services as well pretty easily.

[–] Maggoty 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The law is broad enough they could target Discord.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That seems like a bit of a stretch since it's US based company. I guess some of its investors could be based in China though.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 1 day ago

Russia is on the list too. But that's the point. They can declare that an owner is compromised, no matter what citizenship they hold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

your edit sounds like the fediverse model

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 4 points 3 days ago

I suppose. I was thinking more of 1 Chinese company just spinning up a hundred copy/paste apps.

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