We're RIGHT HERE

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In addition, every hour, on the hour, a jackbooted wannabe PLA soldier that looks remarkably like any random 15 year-old kid from Cleveland will be at your door to read- and mispronounce several paragraphs of The Communist Manifesto.

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And because of the potential blackmail stuff I suppose

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Truth hurts some but eases others irritation.

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Cause people are idiots? Yeah, I think so.

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People so stupid

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Apparently some Israeli-Americans went on Red Note to specifically asked Chinese people what they thought of Israel, and users basically said they were "Devil's on this earth for killing babies" which like...damn. Even through the Great Firewall they aren't beating the allegations.

So I'm sure the Israeli lobby will get that banned next, we shouldn't worry.

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It's marketing, but it's also the value proposition. Average Joes don't see the value in decentralization or the freedom from corporate control. Although that may change under an authoritarian regime....

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show me a federated system that has a bunch of cool tiktoky videos….
afaik, it’s mostly text and that much data would be a huge problem

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As someone who isn’t tech savvy I only joined the fediverse when I had no other choice when Apollo shutdown (except of course going back to Reddit)

Heck when I heard talks of lemmy hearing the word servers was enough to spook me out of joining until last minute

Amon

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IMO it is DOA because the whole point of TikTok is the feed algorithm. You're not supposed to pick what to watch, the algorithm knows your interests. The idea of TikTok therefore is fundamentally unethical and any libre alternatives will be hindered by the fact that users want the unethical part which no developer should or wants to implement.

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I found that any video I try to upload longer than about 17 seconds fails while anything shorter works.

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Lemmy is great but it does not hit the spot for a large-scale consumer social network because that's just not the philosophy (It also lacks the unified identity because of its greatest feature: federation)

People are not searching for an aggregator of small forums of friendly tech people, they want to be part of the next big thing.

If you work on apps as a front-end, you probably understand that Lemmy requires too much hassle to get started with UX-wise.

It's engineered for a niche, and it's perfect to me but obscure for the majority of people who were trained to use the same UX for years and years.

No algorithm, no feeling of fame, rarely drama, content takes some time to be updated. Those are features to me but hindrance for large-scale adoption I believe.

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Blocking is just shoving your head in the sand,

And so is trying to get anyone who disagrees with you to shut up.

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A big barrier is the UI, the default lemmy UI is terrible.

The apps aren't great either, I'm very techy and haven't found one feels as nice as reddit (and the reddit app has many issues)

Normies just aren't going to push past all those barriers

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Sure, but people cannot cry about a service disappearing when disappearing resistant technology exists and just needs attention. Like, it's being worked on, either help or get out of the way and quit complaining

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The tiktok ban was never about China. It was about killing off a dissent medium.

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others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.

really?

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I don’t see why the concept should be unethical.

In practice, of course it is insanely unethical as the algorithms are designed to maximize view time which leads to algorithmic radicalization and hate spreading more quickly, but the concept of an algorithm knowing and learning what you like and selecting for you itself isn’t unethical.

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It’s expensive for video though.

In other words, I have a hard time seeing Pixelfed with a high quality "benign" TikTok algorithm. It’s already possible for music, but video data\analysis is just so voluminous that, without the profitable exploitation backing it, I don't see how they'd pay for it.

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Where were people's protests & complaints when the US government were first proposing the ban?