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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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[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

They’d be right at home at .ml

[-] gravityowl@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The weird obsessions you and some users have for certain instances that you can block is truly mind boggling

Edit: lmao considering OP went to trouble of making a whole gif to celebrate being banned from .ml, I’d say they also fall into the category of "user being obsessed with another instance". A very mature and normal thing to do!

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[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

TikTok doesn't want the data of the average person becaue they aren't valuable in any way.

TikTok is being blocked because they can manipulate their algorithm to feed influencers to them that push pro-Chinese stances.

Imagine a hypothetical hot war between the US and China where China is telling a significant number of the US population what to think. I specifically say it that way becaue I don't believe any US company has a significant user base is China.

[-] nieminen@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

What pro Chinese stances?

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I feel like I already answered that in the last paragraph.

It's litterally anything that whitewashes anything the CCP does. Maybe it's justification for island building in the South China Sea, framing international right of way passages through the same body of water as border incursions, trying to reduce support for weapon sales to Taiwain, or trying to reduce allied responses to an invasion of Taiwan. It could also just be spreading general unrest.

[-] nieminen@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Literally never seen any of that on TikTok. Just Americans doing their thing. In fact, you can actually look up content on TikTok that shows, describes and condemns the atrocities at tiananmen square, and their awful behavior towards Taiwan. And any number of things that shows the chinese government as a bad player. If they were in control, you'd think that sort of thing wouldn't even be available.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, it's seems kinda obvious that the most extreme TikTokphobes have never actually used the app. They think it looks like this:

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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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[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I mean apples to oranges, this isn't really anything like tiktok, we don't share shorts here we create and post on each other's posts

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

That's the fediverse in general on the bottom, not Lemmy.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

can you browse loops from your lemmy account though? is it really federated if there's no cross-over? I don't get it

also ive been using this since reddit api died and apparently I still don't get it sooo good luck to any of the normies that we want to recruit lol

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[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

What should we expect from people who voted in a rich, old, white guy as their savior.

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