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Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago

This is my surprised face 😐 because that’s exactly what I expected to happen.

[–] RubicTopaz 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Waiting for them to rename it to XikXok

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Uh, the X is probably in reference to Musk-Twitter.

[–] ramenshaman 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote

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Edit: didn't know people here like rednote

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Check what instance this community is on lol

[–] ramenshaman 7 points 1 week ago

Oh, oops, I missed that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That was fast. Almost as if they already had an implementation in place controlling content since the start of the app.

[–] alekwithak 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not an adjustment, it's literally always been that way.

Loops.video, or at least Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] alekwithak 10 points 1 week ago

I'm not recommending bsky, I'm just done fighting it if that's where the normies want to go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

anything with enough money behind it will enshitify and you'll find yourself looking for an alternative again in the future.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 21 points 1 week ago (30 children)

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] gmtom 4 points 1 week ago

It was like two months ago tiktok was used to get a random hard right guy to win the Romanian elections

[–] TokenBoomer 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You should be concerned about this if you live in China.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] chaogomu 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] isles 5 points 1 week ago

It's still beta as far as I can tell, I wouldn't go expecting billions of users generating your entertainment for you

[–] drmoose 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 6 points 1 week ago

Mossad must have a fuck ton of kompromat

[–] NoSpiritAnimal 5 points 1 week ago

Got that server migration to Meta done in only 14 hours

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 5 points 1 week ago

Rednote is pretty wholesome

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What a surprise.

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