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American Tiktok users would rather use ACTUAL Chinese spyware app than Meta. XiaoHongShu (meaning "Little Red Book") and ChatGPT (for translating the Mandarin only app) are currently #1 and #2 on the App store.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Implementation is too slow - no plug and play app - why would they use it over an app you just need to download to use? I mean same problem as with all federation software: no central guarantors that you will always be able to chat with everyone, too much politics between all instances involved etc. which honestly is the whole point, but that's not what normies want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You can also just download loops? Afaik there is only one instance at the moment either way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No App in neither play store nor f-droid nor GitHub with obtainium please provide a link. I registered this morning (EU time so ~10h ago) on the website and still don't have an admission Email. That's just not normie friendly to make it a big app, while right now would've been the time to fill the maybe void of tiktok, the execution is just too damn sloppy.

Pixelfed app can't play loops as well btw