• @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    273 months ago

    Meanwhile the mainstream will probably just focus on Instagram and its reels feature as pretty much all bigger creators crosspost everything there as well.

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      43 months ago

      In all likelihood, Red Note will be banned banned, probably before the Red Note devs add a built-in translate function.

      • @GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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        You can still connect to it, the app store has to take it down and it can’t be hosted in the u.s. assuming your ISP allows it, you can still access the TikTok servers outside of the u.s. but that’s going to cause a lot of traffic and ISPs will throttle it or block it completely.

        You can still side load the app, not sure how iOS users are going to do that and that’s going to be the majority of people.

        So you may or may not still be able to use the current app without a VPN until TikTok updates it or the OEMs push an update that bricks it.

        • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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          Connecting to it isn’t hard, But they won’t be able to pay people, so the US content will just get starved out.

          • @GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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            I’m not actually seeing anything preventing creators from being paid, they’re just going to lose the majority of their u.s. audience on the platform.

            • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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              They won’t freeze the assets until the company is officially barred from working here. They won’t just fuck around and blindly try to figure out what they’re doing, once they command Apple and Google to remove it from the App store, they’ll start freezing assets and stopping financial transactions. It’s just the nature of the beast.

          • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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            23 months ago

            We have a similar situation on Youtube - the site itself doesn’t pay the creators anymore. But everyone who had Youtube as a profession is still there. Some depend on a Patreon-like service, some on their own sponsorships.

            • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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              Youtube has backed down a lot, but they’re still paying their golden geese.

              Spiffing britt has let a new recent video payouts out of the bag, a good multi-million hit view video still nets him around 20k.

        • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          I wonder if Tiktok would respond by making their mobile webapp better in this case.

          By the way, if the traffic is throttled and not outright blocked - that would mean things like GoodbyeDPI would be likely possible instead of VPNs!

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          I am saying this because I saw this happen. Whenever I accidentally peek into a random’s phone on a bus, chances are the homescreen has a VPN app. The blocked social media did have a bit of a decline, but remain very popular, especially Youtube, which was likely the biggest drive for people to bypass the blocks. The lack of credit is more about them often choosing shady VPN services.

    • @lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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      63 months ago

      The instagram reels and YouTube shorts algorithms are utter shit. I’ve tried, but holy shit there’s some crap in there.

    • Aatube
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      “I would rather stare at a language I can’t understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.

      but uh, why tf did they use tiktok in the first place

    • @Allonzee@lemmy.world
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      Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me, anyone willing to indulge Zuck’s midlife Nazi crisis deserves him.

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        203 months ago

        Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me

        I’m waiting for by Loops verification mail but I’d say the average Lemmy user has not that much in common with the average TikTok/IG user.

        • @heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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          the average Lemmy user has not that much in common with the average TikTok/IG user

          The fact that they managed to clone the most idiotic and brainwashing platform on the internet proves that they are pretty average.

  • @Reygle@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    “NOOOO the foreign man who’s been fucking me is gone, I MUST find a new foreign man to fuck me or I will die!” -Idiot humans

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      foreign man

      Why „foreign man”? Why not „Capitalist”? Or „Megacorporation”?

      Foreign people are not the only ones who are fucking you over.

          • @Reygle@lemmy.world
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            The China kind.

            “We may disclose any of the Information We Collect to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries, and to protect and defend the rights, interests, safety, and security of the Platform, our affiliates, users, or the public. We may also share any of the Information We Collect to enforce any terms applicable to the Platform, to exercise or defend any legal claims, and comply with any applicable law.”

            • @Packet@lemmy.ml
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              Wow, a very normal, and widespread TOS part. Which almost EVERY SINGLE COMPANY has. And whatever yammer yer were doing with “communist mega corporation” is also very strange. I hope for the better of yer.

              • Realitätsverlust
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                No.

                Many companies in the western world will not freely give your information to law enforcement and will even actively fight it. We saw that with apple, we saw that with signal and specifically in germany, we had some other smaller profile cases that have fought law enforcement.

                In China, companies are forced to give the government free access to all of its information without any subpoena or anything needed. Which is why many western companies can’t do business in china themselves without having a Chinese partner company that handles it for them (Blizzard needed NetEase, for example)

                • @Packet@lemmy.ml
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                  Apple?? You used apple as an example? Apple that finally settled the lawsuit where siri recorded conversations and they sent them off to third parties? Comical.

      • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Why „foreign man”? Why not „Capitalist”? Or „Megacorporation”?

        In this specific case, the man fucking them over is banned because it’s foreign. The position of domestic man fucking them over is not vacant so they only need to find a replacement for the position of foreign man fucking them over.

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    I don’t want to rain on everyone’s parade but I think the law bans all apps with over 1 million users that are based in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea (“foreign adversary controlled applications”) where you can make a profile and share content. WeChat would definitely count. So, Red Note is probably/possibly going away soon too. I guess VKontakte is Russian and still in the app stores.

    The media is focused on creators and TikTok, obviously. But a WeChat ban would probably suck for people with grandparents in China since that’s the “everything app” there. (I don’t know what China bans but even if there’s other messaging apps allowed in China, teaching your elderly Chinese grandma to use a different app on a ~12h time zone difference is probably not a fun activity.)

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      It’s any app they can point to as being controlled. It does not matter where it is based. As an example they could allege that one of the owners of Discord has Russian contacts and is therefore controlled by a foreign adversary. (He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine; where contact between Russians and Ukrainians wasn’t uncommon before the current war.)

      Congress can request a briefing but if they want to prevent a fire sale they have to pass an entirely new bill amending the law.

      And this article is so transparently an ad for Red Note it’s ridiculous.

    • Brusque
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      243 months ago

      Russia is no longer an adversary with the incoming administration, Putin owns Trump and their interests are now are own.

        • Brusque
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          53 months ago

          No sarcasm, I’m happy that you agree. But we have no power to stop whatever the fuck he’s going to do, so we’re just talking semantics.

  • @DocumentingReality@lemmy.cafe
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    I read online somewhere, that you will still be able to have Tiktok. It will only be removed from the App stores. Then gradually faze out the site itself later. So, you have some time to get on the site. It won’t be completely offline on January 19.

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    I look forward to the people who don’t realize that Red Note will just get banned too.

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        The problem is that that sometimes if you give the government the finger… you might not get it back.

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          You just need to be careful of which part of gov you give the finger to, and where you are when you give it.

          Snowden did it the right way, he gave the middle finger on foreign soil and made it to an enemy of the state’s soil before the gov caught up.

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          It goes both ways, users are giving the middle finger to the US gov, the US gov is giving the middle finger to the Chinese gov. Lots of middle fingers flying around.

  • @PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
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    I’m not really one for Tik Tok, but I went on REDNote to see what it was about and it was incredibly wholesome seeing American and Chinese people getting to interact as normal human beings and understand each other without it being filtered through our governments. Even if they don’t shut down Tik Tok, they’re gonna have to shut that shit down. Can’t have future soldiers seeing their “enemies” as humans.

      • @irreticent@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        For those unfamiliar:

        The 50 Cent Party, also known as the 50 Cent Army or wumao, are Internet commentators who are paid by the authorities of the People’s Republic of China to spread the propaganda of the governing Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The program was created during the early phases of the Internet’s rollout to the wider public in China.

        • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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          China paying entire offices of people to be friendly, entertaining, and educational to foreigners online would be cool actually.

  • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    This is the third story I’ve seen today that was basically “Tiktok users flee service to other chinese service app you’ve never heard of”

    So basically the usa banned tiktok, and now there’s 3 other tiktoks, all connecting the same amount of data for china, just through 3 different services instead of 1.

    • @viking@infosec.pub
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      XiaoHongShu is much older than tiktok, it started shortly after facebook, though resembles more a mix of Twitter and Instagram.

      • @nialv7@lemmy.world
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        XiaoHongShu was founded in 2013, Facebook was founded in 2004…

        Your sense of time is a bit warped…

    • @D_Air1@lemmy.ml
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      Honestly, I don’t even believe these articles. At some point it just starts to sound like they are making things up.

      • @inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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        I mean, this is real easy to fact check. Open whichever playstore you prefer and sort by most downloaded. Red note and 8 will be up there.

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      Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

      [Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there’s just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

    • @Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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      Why? Cuz Chinese bad? Stolen data bad? I think you don’t understand that there is no safe data. It doesn’t matter who is taking it but your data is owned by someone. If not the Chinese it’s the US government. If not them then you’re phone provider. If you purchase ANYTHING, that store is collecting your data.

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        People keep making this argument comparing TikTok to American social media companies when talking about data.

        What is hard to understand? Americans are fine with other Americans or American companies having their data. Americans are not fine with China having their data.

        It is pretty simple.

        • @matjoeman@lemmy.world
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          I’d rather the Chinese government have my data than the US government. The US government has a lot more power over me.

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            This sentiment will be the downfall of America. Maybe that’s what you want. Not me.

            It isn’t just about data, but influence.

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            That’s one way to look at it, not my intent but if that’s how you took it, enjoy.

            More like, foreign control of my mental state is bad.

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              It really just sounds like unintentional racism to me. A vague dislike and distrust of foreigners. Nobody able to prove the Chinese intentions are any worse than the American gov’s intentions.

              I agree mas data collection is wrong, but if we’re gonna be upset, it’s gotta cover the whole topic, not just china

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        Not Chinese bad, Chinese government bad. because the Chinese government has so much control, Chinese companies can’t be trusted. yes, stolen data is bad. I know that data is being stolen anyway, but tiktok has historically been very bad about it. however, i was reffering to them moving from one shitty Chinese platform to another even more shitty and even more Chinese (as in controlled more by the Chinese government) one, when there are platforms that are from places that do not have an authoritarian government able to control any company if they so choose. of course something like instagram (reels) or youtube shorts isn’t much better in terms of data theft, but who has the data does matter no matter how hard you’re coping.

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          I don’t get it, are they going to steal my bank login? Like what’s so bad about knowing I liked a fried meme?

          • @pfwood178@sh.itjust.works
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            It’s more than just what you do in the app though. Check out some of the data any random website can find out about you here: privacy.net/analyzer/
            Expand that into an app, given lots of permissions, that is tied to your phone number and email account. Given enough time and logging, it knows where you live and work, when you commute and sleep, every WiFi or mobile network you connect to and where they are located. This metadata is linked to your account and in-app activity. They have this data for you, your friends, colleagues, that weird guy you see on the bus every day… Right now, the app just uses all this to influence “your algorithm” (side note: this is also why people think some apps are actively ‘listening’ to conversations). But imagine a case where the govt owner of the app wants to start pushing a specific narrative, gradually swaying opinions or sowing the seeds of discourse, reinforcing it with the artificial echo chamber that is your new algorithm. /TedTalk

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            They are stealing data that can be (and is, often) used to track you across the entire internet. many social media platforms (again, especially tiktok) use this data to straight up manipulate people into spending more time on their platform and having views that align with the interests of the company. this is especially bad if the interests of the company are really the interests of an authoritarian government that is blatantly hostile to other countries unprovoked.

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              Your statement applies whether we’re talking about American or Chinese companies. One of these countries has affordable groceries, the other has school shootings.

              But yeah yeah “what about Tianeman Square, and Taiwan?” OK sure, fine. What about police brutality and the ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST?

        • @Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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          You are just parroting shit you read on the internet and I feel bad for you. You literally have no idea how fucked we all are in terms of our data being stolen. I guess you want to be the one who determine who fucks you. Well TikTok users are doing the same

          You are essentially virtue signaling that you are so much more security minded than everyone because you “safeguard your data”. I’m sorry to burst your bubble but our oligarch owns our data and is selling it to the highest bidder. The fact that you own a phone/computer means your data has already been bought and sold.

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        What if that’s what they were talking about? That’s it’s idiotic to ban it given everything you just said.

  • @waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world
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    In a way I would feel more comfortable with china having my shit posting data than an American company. At least if china has it, there is slightly less of a chance of them selling the data to a data set deanonymizing company who in turn sells my data linked to me to like an insurance company who jacks my rates because I said their CEO should get Luigi’d. What is china gonna do to me if I never go to China and exist largely outside of their sphere of influence?

    • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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      It isn’t about you. China doesn’t care about you. If they have a computer tracking cell network info of groups of soldiers, they can glean actionable information about US military posture. They can do large-scale data analysis on the information they have and get a startling amount of information. They can also use it as a vector for injecting their favorite form of aggression against the US, soft power. They can’t defeat the US in a fight, but economic and cultural warfare is a vulnerability in the US where the battleground is far more level. The incoming administration has indicated it plans to further increase the US’s military strength, which is functionally untouchable as it stands and is more than ready for the fight nobody plans to bring against it, while weakening the actual fight we are seeing. The US is objectively safer, however little, against the machinations of the CCP with tiktok gone, but it is a band-aid on a firehose. Also, the CCP is clearly ready for that move given the move to Redbook, likely stoked by CCP operators under the guise of “haha let’s go to another Chinese app, that’ll show 'em!” because Americans are very easy to predict and manipulate…they are born and raised to be manipulated. It’s rough, but quite interesting to see play out.

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        Sounds like a problem for the TRILLION dollar military industrial complex. I’m sure they can spare a few bucks to solve that issue.

      • @waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world
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        But that’s my point. china doesn’t care about me. American data gobblers care very much about me because I exist as a consumer in their sphere of influence and am far more likely to be exploited by said data.

        • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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          China would have more of an investment in the information on people they DO care to get than the US would have on any information scraps it could collect from tiktok that it doesn’t already have from hundreds of other sources.

        • @Geobloke@lemm.ee
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          Do they actually? I mean why can’t I sell my days. If I quit the big tech companies and paid for the equivalent services, could I sell that data at a auction? Not having a go at you, just wondering how much our individual data is actually worth.

          • @waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world
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            Could you sell your own personal data at auction? Maybe. It depends on who is buying the info and what they stand to gain or mitigate their risk if you want it in corpo speak.

            Car insurance already does this by giving discounts for having a gps tracker connected to your car. These things give data like location, speed and g forces. If you drive outside of their parameters your rates go up. So your driving data is worth whatever the discount they give and that’s just a fraction of your data.

    • @surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, China doesn’t have jurisdiction over me. I don’t have to worry about the CCP showing up at my door to harass me for what I post. But it’s a very real threat from the US feds.