cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24394554
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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don't care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal "Chinese spy," while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.
"This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren't controlled by the same few oligarchs," Quintin said. "People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks."
I think the Join Fediverse site should ask a few questions (what service do you want? Where are you? What are your interests?) and spit out a small handful of suggestions. Shouldn't be too difficult to program.
That's what join-lemmy.org does, is it not?
It doesn't ask where you are, just the language. As it's for Lemmy only, it obviously doesn't ask what service you are looking for too.
Join the Fediverse needs something much more like that but with the extra options. As it stands you have to do way too much scrolling, reading and clicking.
... and when it asks what language, it doesn't differentiate between English and American Englishes, for example, and you have to scroll down quite a long way to get shown Feddit.uk.
Sometimes you just want to know everyone's on the same page when you talk about biscuits, pants and fannies.
Yeah, that's a bugbear of mine, and one of the reasons I think this place is necessary - people do seem to default to English-language = America. I think quite a few people aew surprised to find lemmy.world is hosted in Europe and subject to their laws.
It's why @[email protected] has been looking into promoting American content on American instances.