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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.”

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    14 hours ago

    The fediverse as a whole has missed a huge opportunity here. I never see anyone talking about it as alternatives to twitter or tiktok, only bluesky and rednote. AFAIK we have no alternative to tik-tok that is viable right now, so I don’t know why anyone thought we could manage that one.

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      14 hours ago

      Loops would be the fedi alternative for tiktok, no? I think. And I agree…but fediverse has only a little word of mouth (reading your comment I feel guilty not pushing it to my friends a little), no money for these viral campaigns/swarms of new users.

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        12 hours ago

        the fediverse needs a simple onboarding process like “signal”, to overtly simplify it for casual users. Also, I only heard about loops today and it appears so far it only has a specialized iOS app that requires a special “alpha” mode to be enabled, and no android app. Not exactly ready for primetime.

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          11 hours ago

          EasyPeezy for you to say! :D but yeah if it’s not even in the appstore…Pixelfed has seen a boost at least