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.
Pro Tip: Loops is a federated short form video platform.
Doesn’t surprise me though, that most will jump ship to another Chinese spyware instead.Loops is great but it’s not a TikTok replacement for the average TikTok user. The average TikTok user likes TikTok’s algorithms
That is a fair point, but I’ve seen @dansup@mastodon.social talking about what he plans to do about the algorithm to keep privacy-friendly. If I’m not wrong, I recall something along the lines of having the option to self-host your own algorithm recommendation.
Self-hosting your own recommendations would be amazing. I’m on the Testflight waitlist for Loops, hope I can get access soon.
Yeah, that would be dope. An average user probably won’t use it, though. But having the option is great, and for user who don’t opt in for self-hosting probably an option to export their algorithm data would be cool, for things like changing instances.
I would love to have the option to set the algorithm, like if I’m feeling sad use an algorithm that optimizes for happiness, if I’m feeling lazy use an algorithm that optimizes for inspiration, etc. This is the future I want
A lot of them are going to it because it’s Chinese Spyware, just to be petty to the government.
Holy ideology, Batman!
Huh!?
You heard me.
And it seems to be working… just saw a politician say that they need to re-review the tiktok ban citing rednote
Bro loops is right there
Bro, who downvoted you?? 😂
How dare you point out the obvious correct choice as an alternative.
Simply having the same or similar features alone doesn’t make it a viable replacement. I switched from Instagram to Pixelfed and went from hardly anyone seeing my photography to literally no one seeing it.
The Chinese users are actually pretty welcoming and funny
They keep harassing US users for pictures of their cats.
What the fuck are people doing
Sticking their middle fingers to the government? I even saw a trend where people were talking about live streaming on red note and just walking through all the government buildings near them.
Sticking their middle finger to the government so they can keep using another government’s spyware?
Ok.
What does the Chinese government care what I say about the American government?
What can they do to me anyway?
Nothing says sticking it to the government like some treason, right guys? /s
After the 6th of Jan, I can’t be convinced that the USA takes treason seriously.
Lol, I just got flamed in a Lemmy.ml community for condemning this shit
I mean it’s pretty funny, innit?
It’s a Chinese app what of it?
It would be funny if tiktok just put out a transfer request to everyone’s accounts and then make a new company called toktik and all content gets transferred with any account that opts in. Then the government has to go through the whole process to shut down toktik again.
There’s no process to go through again. The law is in place now. It didn’t Target TikTok specifically by name. It’s based on foreign company ownership and number of US users. I don’t know the specifics though
I misread that as TikTok banning looming and spent far too much time wondering what looming is. Some sort of viral textile meme …
People should realize though that Red Note has actually been around since 2013 and is not a new app. WHat might be new is their owners may be more dedicated to replacing TIktok due to what been happening to TIktok in the u.s of late.
- Chinese = Bad
- Russian = Bad
- Iran = Bad
- USA = We are the only good guys.
USA = We are the only good guys.
Nobody but the gov itself and right-wing nutjobs is saying that.
It is in fact possible to criticize China, Russia, Iran AND the US at the same time
They are all complacent in crimes and human rights violations in one form or another
Yeah, but one of those governments can get you right now.
The other one has to cross international borders.
Honestly, using a foreign social media site is a hilarious move.
If I wanted to criticize the government, especially my own, I can see the reasoning behind using a foreign platform to do it on.
Domestic companies prefer foreign companies be banned. Competition is bad for business after all.
imagine my surprise at learning this comment came from lemmy.ml
Lol. Everyone is the bad guy. The ruling oligarchy of every nation is horrendous.
Tug o war works because the rope is strong enough to withstand the pull. In online political tug o war, you’re the rope. Most people would naturally dislike the folks trying to turn them into rope.
can i be the dog
Run for office and we’ll talk
you drive a hard bargain
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