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What is UpScrolled? App gains interest during TikTok outage
(www.newsweek.com)
it was here for couple of months, but some leftie twitter users are joining now. Seems like samey centralized architecture tbh, but 
If it's based in Australia I wonder what the implications might be regarding surveillance, since Australia is a member of the Five Eyes, as well as any state censorship in service of Zionism, etc.
Australia has particularly nasty laws regarding governmental access to digital services via individuals involved in providing those services. UpScrolled cannot be trusted.
Yeah I was immediately skeptical when I saw it was based in Australia. Doubt it will take off.
I think we are entering a post-centralized era of the internet though, where people are just going to be in their own corners. With TikTok locking down and Instagram/Meta being complete dogshit, I don't think there are any large centralized platforms that everyone will be on in the future. Some people will bleed off into Bluesky, Upscrolled, Telegram, Mastodon to get their information. Some significant populations will always stick around on X, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, and Tiktok for sure.
This is where I'm at, yeah. It's not safe to be on centralized networks in the imperial core, arguably anywhere in the modern age...