Wait, people are really just moving from one chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies to another chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies?
The US politicians have destabilized the whole country. The apps just gives a place to be vocal. The US uses our data against us we just ignore it because they say they don’t.
How comes that whenever one criticizes Tiktok there’s always gonna be multiple comments screeching ”BuT fAcEbOoK aNd TwItTeR“ though nobody said they weren’t also garbage? And funnily, if you criticize any of those two, someone comes screeching ”BuT tIkToK“
Well, people are moving from what they see as an innocent funny video app to a much more obvious chinese controlled app in protest. Basically trying to call out the hypocrisy of the government banning tiktok when all these other apps exist.
Most people do not realize how much info tiktok gathered from you and which shady state governments it filtered into.
It’s funny though because the tiktok ban doesn’t target tiktok, it targets any foreign controlled app above a certain number of users. So as soon as red note gains a bunch of users it will be killed as hard as tiktok.
That’s of course unless both governments don’t enforce the law, like they both have said they aren’t going to do.
Well yes and no, people are moving to it, mostly as a form of protest IMO
I highly doubt it was “designed” for sowing discord and such, RedNote was very much intended to be a local Chinese SM. Most of the app isn’t even in English last I saw, just Chinese and they’re rushing to hire “English-speaking” moderators rn
They are very much designed to sowing Chinese discourse and push the capitalist hyper-consumption life style. In fact RedNote is famous for being toxic and anxiety-inducing among Chinese community, partially due to its root in product promotion:
Xiaohongshu was founded by Miranda Qu and Charlwin Mao in 2013 as an online tour guide for Chinese shoppers, providing a platform for users to review products and share their shopping experiences with the community.
They are also anti-competitive and consumer-hostile:
Xiaohongshu strictly prevents advertising and linking to external websites or apps. Actions such as sending WeChat contacts in posts or DMs or inquiring about prices of goods can lead to account suspension.
And most westerners don’t see this side of rednote, because rednote give western users special treatments, i.e. because of western privileges:
Following the growth in users from the United States, Xiaohongshu was said to be exploring adjusting its content review processes as American influencers began sharing posts.
On 14 January 2025, Xiaohongshu announced that it would direct users to more “positive” content in line with a November 2024 directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China.
It is funny to see those so called “communist” rushing to defend the very embodiment of capitalistic hyper-consumption in China, and the only thing shielding them from such toxicity is their own privilege.
At this point I think the ‘spyware app that sows discord and destabilize western societies’ is built into every corporately owned and controlled social media network.
It’s not social media any more … it’s just basic ‘spyware to sow discord and destabilize society’
Wait, people are really just moving from one chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies to another chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies?
You’re out of your mind 🤣. Blaming an app for this countries problems is incredible mental gymnastics.
The US politicians have destabilized the whole country. The apps just gives a place to be vocal. The US uses our data against us we just ignore it because they say they don’t.
But people can just be vocal on platforms that don’t seek to manipulate public opinions, like mastodon…
Tell me again how US politicians made a candidate in the romanian election of 2024.
”Western societies“ is not only the US, you egocentric yankees.
Twitter and Facebook would count as destabilising Western society.
How comes that whenever one criticizes Tiktok there’s always gonna be multiple comments screeching ”BuT fAcEbOoK aNd TwItTeR“ though nobody said they weren’t also garbage? And funnily, if you criticize any of those two, someone comes screeching ”BuT tIkToK“
FOR FUCKS SAKE STAY ON TOPIC.
that is the point, they are moving from Chinese app to Chinese app because the alternatoves are equally bad.
Corporations are good at acquiring users because they invest money, and the greatest tradeoff is social control and manipulation.
You thought tiktokers would come to Lemmy?
Well, people are moving from what they see as an innocent funny video app to a much more obvious chinese controlled app in protest. Basically trying to call out the hypocrisy of the government banning tiktok when all these other apps exist.
Most people do not realize how much info tiktok gathered from you and which shady state governments it filtered into.
It’s funny though because the tiktok ban doesn’t target tiktok, it targets any foreign controlled app above a certain number of users. So as soon as red note gains a bunch of users it will be killed as hard as tiktok.
That’s of course unless both governments don’t enforce the law, like they both have said they aren’t going to do.
Well yes and no, people are moving to it, mostly as a form of protest IMO
I highly doubt it was “designed” for sowing discord and such, RedNote was very much intended to be a local Chinese SM. Most of the app isn’t even in English last I saw, just Chinese and they’re rushing to hire “English-speaking” moderators rn
They are very much designed to sowing Chinese discourse and push the capitalist hyper-consumption life style. In fact RedNote is famous for being toxic and anxiety-inducing among Chinese community, partially due to its root in product promotion:
They are also anti-competitive and consumer-hostile:
And most westerners don’t see this side of rednote, because rednote give western users special treatments, i.e. because of western privileges:
Quotes are from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohongshu and there are many Mandarin articles on the toxicity of rednote:
It is funny to see those so called “communist” rushing to defend the very embodiment of capitalistic hyper-consumption in China, and the only thing shielding them from such toxicity is their own privilege.
At this point I think the ‘spyware app that sows discord and destabilize western societies’ is built into every corporately owned and controlled social media network.
It’s not social media any more … it’s just basic ‘spyware to sow discord and destabilize society’
Hum… The first one doesn’t seem designed for that. It’s just an afterthought use China added after it became popular.
And the second one is probably designed for apathy and “productivity enabling”. It will certainly get a redesign now.
Meanwhile, some people seem to not want the apathy and “productivity enabling” apps from the US. Too bad there aren’t many alternatives.