Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote
This is my surprised face π because thatβs exactly what I expected to happen.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Waiting for them to rename it to XikXok
Is... China in support of the Palestinian genocide? They've been very vocally critical of Israel throughout the past year...
This is like. AmericaTok. America is the nation that engages in by far the most Palestinian genocide denialism.
Uh, the X is probably in reference to Musk-Twitter.
Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote
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Edit: didn't know people here like rednote
Check what instance this community is on lol
Oh, oops, I missed that.
I dont care about TikTok, I don't care about rednote. I'm just happy people are trying new things. I feel some people here underestimate the percentage of the people online who will avoid trying new things.
Think of how many people just have facebook and/or google be "the internet". They underestimate the things the average users will put up with to avoid having to switch services/operating systems and so on.
This is a good thing, even if they aren't going to a service you prefer.
Are there any other popular short-form content alternatives right now? Insta sucks and Loops is very much not ready yet.
my question is why do you even need a time-sucking and addictive short video app?
Youtube shorts? Idk, that's the only short-form video content I partake in.
Maybe redgifs.com? (nsfw) π
Can't forget about that one
That was fast. Almost as if they already had an implementation in place controlling content since the start of the app.
Not an adjustment, it's literally always been that way.
Loops.video, or at least Bluesky.
Bluesky will meet the same fate. It's "federated" mostly in name only.
Loops is promising though, but it's obviously not polished enough or ready for mass use yet
I'm not recommending bsky, I'm just done fighting it if that's where the normies want to go.
anything with enough money behind it will enshitify and you'll find yourself looking for an alternative again in the future.
I mean, fuck Tik Tok, yes. But also try saying "Liberate Hong Kong", "Taiwan Independence", "Remember Tiananmen Square 1989", or "Xi is Winnie The Pooh" on Rednote. Let's not pretend that Rednote, or any other Chinese media, is free of censorship either.
The difference here is that TikTok did not enforce censorship on content related to the genocide in Palestine, nor did it have a right-wing bias in the algorithm like, say, Twitter does.
This shift in censorship puts TikTok in line with Twitter and Facebook/Instagram on the propaganda narrative that they want on their platform. Which is a massive issue for anybody left of white supremacists who cares about free speech and facts.
nor did it have a right-wing bias
looks at how they promote AfD influencers in Germany, and how they promoted targeted videos to try to elect a neo-nazi in Romania
It doesn't have what?
Well arguably it has whatever-destabilizes-the-country-the-most bias, but for most of the western world this mostly means they have a pro local fascists bias.
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It was like two months ago tiktok was used to get a random hard right guy to win the Romanian elections
Yes, you're right. "This population under a genocide should liberated" and "Chinese man is yellow bear lol" are equivalent forms of conversation. Absolutely heroic.
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How is loops doing?
I just got my account yesterday.
After signing up the day before.
And I'll say, having never used TikTok, I don't actually know how they compare to each other...
I never checked it out but the biggest issue for social media is always content. Does Loops have a lot/good content or is it dead?
It's still beta as far as I can tell, I wouldn't go expecting billions of users generating your entertainment for you
Tiktok has always been like this.
Their comment system is absolutely broken and actually it's probably on purpose. 90% of these comments get restored on appeal but they are already burried deep so it's very popular moderation strategy where the system relies on correction to appear safe an intelligent but the correction ends up being irrevant in the grand scale of things.
Same thing with Twitter community notes which add context when everyone already read the tweet to give an illusion of moderation and safety.
As an engineer I'm honestly very impressed by the effectivenes of this strategy β it's brilliant despite, you know, being evil β and it'll take public a while to catch up.
Itβs a problem with YouTube too. I would say that at least 40% of my comments end up removed.
They also like to rub my nose in it by sending me notifications from whatever thread I replied to.
Iβd love to have a decent alternative.
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And removing the thumbs down count was very damaging, I think. You can see that 60 people support Hitler but you have to install an add on to know that 300 people didnβt agree with that garbage. Itβs a mess.
Mossad must have a fuck ton of kompromat
Got that server migration to Meta done in only 14 hours
Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote
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Rednote is pretty wholesome
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What a surprise.
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