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Avieshek

The fediverse and the decentralised web has a long way to go and need to learn a thing or two about UX unless it wants to join the plight of Linux distros.

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I feel the same. I prefer less crowded places, but I believe it would be better for us all if people left any kind of corporate or attention draining social media.

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people who voted in a rich, old, white guy as their savior.

This describes every single election except one.

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Imagine a hypothetical hot war between the US and China where China is telling a significant number of the US population what to think.

This sounds like an imaginary situation where it might be ok to ban TikTok, but definitely not like actual reality.

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You realize people in USA are constantly bombarded with this kind of propaganda from their local state. Even if what you're saying was true (it's not), I don't think one app from a different state is going to make any difference.

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Yeah, it's seems kinda obvious that the most extreme TikTokphobes have never actually used the app.

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TBH Instagram is far worse. My recommended reels are 100% professional babes (admittedly I click them sometimes) and my posts are like 40% ads for crazy zionist propaganda and other wacky crap like creationism (literally).

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Lemmy's Rookgaard. After 30 comments, you're forced to register somewhere else.

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Americans are populist trend followers, get what they deserve. Even China banned TikTok

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Seems astroturfed to me

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Even China banned TikTok

Not quite, TT is available in China, BUT the CCP mandates they use a special algorithm for the Chinese audience that promotes positivity, education and other quality content rather than just whatever is popular

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K, sounds better than a platform strewn with lies and disinformation used to fabricate political influence

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Exactly. I think a lot of people just go to whatever is blasted into their eyeballs often enough without a second thought as to the source. I bet with the TikTok news, RedNote probably started paying a bunch of influencers to astroturf and bought a bunch of ad space.

I doubt so many people would be buying nonsense on Temu if it wasn't buying up every. Single. Unblocked. Ad space. Across everything.

People would be like "WTF is a Temu? I'm not into pokemon. Oh I see. It looks sketchy."

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We also have to consider moderation. If suddenly everyone just jumped to the fediverse all at once...hoo boi let's just say I bet the FBI would have quite a field day.

But then again there's PeerTube instances that seem to be doing pretty well so...I dunno...?

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giving anyone instant access to any amount of exactly what they want most is ~~dangerous~~ (Edit: likely irresponsible, potentially dangerous, like designing escapist drugs

Oh wow, how you so perfectly, succinctly described all the empty promises of Ai hype in one elegant line.

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No, they count as a colony as far as I'm concerned. But there's a difference in how they are treated. PR is basically treated as an independent nation, despite having voted for statehood (ignored by the ruling GOP). HK wanted to have just a modicum of independence, and the Chinese government reacted with goons and gulags.

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PLA soldier

It's early, so here I am laughing picturing some kid LARPing in a bunch of 3D printed gear. . .which would warp in the sun on the walk to your door, which explains why you can see his mom's sedan idling at the end of your driveway.

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RedNote wasn't coughing up all the ad money and buying off influencers to screech "I'm going to RedNote, all hail glorious PoohBear!" at the time I guess lol.

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That's some good humor LMAO.

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It could be that sorta thing, but I think it was the same aim as the "salt typhoon" attack on U.S telecomms corpos.

A majority of the vulnerabilities and data dumps are, yes, worthless, but somewhere there's dumb U.S officials or people with clearances doom-scrolling TikTok , and their data or meta-data is giving valuable insight into how they can be manipulated, blackmailed, who they're connected to, whatever.