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combating the assumptions rule 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 (i.imgur.com)

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more adventures on rednote mostly because it’s entertaining how mad people get when i talk about it :3 /halfjoke

this was posted 12/31 btw so i don’t think “the mods haven’t gotten to it yet” is a real thing

#le is common in parallel to the anglosphere’s #wlw which i think is adorable

my number one qualm with little red book so far is there is no native translation like tiktok has. lots of google translate is necessary to get the social media to social :P

necessary disclaimer: fuck the CCP and all the real violence and repression they do. just want to give credit given where due, and so far here im just seeing a lot of assumptions with no evidence? so im gonna post what my experience is :) i welcome all to do the same

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cringe app

cringe post

cringe everything

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

obligatory yapdollar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

holy shit first yapdollar reference i have seen on fedi. imagine a universe where pixelfed loops takes off with yapdollar as a leading creator.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been getting some major astroturfing vibes around here lately.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's going to be so interesting seeing how all of this plays out. Will meta succeed in reclaiming their market share? Will a new app take the throne? Will congress just keep banning any app that is too popular and not under the american oligarchys control? Will trump somehow leverage this into him being the one to save tiktok? Will loops UI ever be good enough to compete? Only time will tell.

What a strange timeline we live in lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

right! like i know the stakes are high but this new development has gotten me very invested from an almost entertaiment perspective. there’s huge potential here for change and i have no clue if it’s gonna be positive or negative.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same! I think it is nice to have something developing that isn't as overwhelmingly frightening as lots of the things in the works right now. Like this is high stakes and says alot about corruption in America, but like at least it's not something that could potentially put me or my loved ones in harms way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

well put!

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The level of shortsightedness in people is astounding to me again and again. History really seems to always repeat. When will people ever learn that there is no company in the world that is their friend.

"Oh, but it looks fine and i havent had any issue" says the little user that is currently feeding the networking effect of the next platform, that will inevitably fail in exactly the same way as every other for profit social media.

"Oh, but everyone is here and i dont wanna switch again" says the little user that now has the choice between losing all their feeds and follows or staying on a platform slowly being squeezed for money or political incentives.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

When will people ever learn that there is no company in the world that is their friend.

In my experience people doing this transition are hyper aware and open about not trusting any company, TikTok, RedNote, or otherwise. So I think you are hitting the nail on the head, but coming at the thing from a different angle.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The issue is that lots of people joining, self aware or not, validates the platform in normie users eyes. I know this cant be solved on an individualist level, because humans are tribal creatures, but its still tough to watch every time it happens.

I frequently see post aroilund here asking "Is service X or website Y trustworthy?" and my thought is always "No, ofcourse not." Anything thats not running on your computer is inherently untrusthworthy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

Yup. Wish there could be a migration to an actually decent open platform but we’re all hung up with underfunding and personal qualms getting in the way. “I won’t use PixelFed because it doesn’t have a dark mode” is a literal comment I have seen from a Lemmy user.

Ridiculous patterns of behavior on both sides 😭

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