Anyone else think it’s oddly convenient how this happens just after Rednote jumps in popularity?
It’s clearly pro-Trump propaganda, but I also can’t help but think there’s more than one motivation going on here. People are jumping to another platform, time to remind them that TikTok is still here! Can’t risk pulling an Elon and losing all those users to an alternative.
But I’m just thinking out loud here. I don’t use TikTok or Rednote, so I don’t know how well they compare. Thoughts?
I think China doesn’t want tiktok users to spread to rednote since they have a large domestic userbase already there, they don’t want influenced americans influencing the chinese population creating influenception.
You’re mistaken. Rednote updated allowing for EN->Mandarin translation for chinese native users and made the settings menu appear in english for english speaking users. The rumors you’ve heard about rednote bifurcating (like Douyin and TikTok) are only rumors.
It amazes me that people will form whole opinions like this with no effort, no personal investigation. You can literally use a vpn to browse it if you’re worried about your data, but I’m willing to bet that you have a marketing machine in your house that you welcomed with open arms. A majority of users on every social media have already had their data sold to every conceivable database, or are young enough that they don’t realize how many datapoints they’re making with their electronic footprint. Think about how likely it is that using a chinese app would actually affect you in any way - we’ve known for years now that health insurance and healthcare companies in the US that aren’t covered by the narrow scope of HIPAA are selling our information, but you’re worried about vine and instagram with storefronts included? Do you even know about marvel SNAP?
I’m completely out of the loop, for I have a flip phone that can’t even get on lemmy nor tiktok as its browser is outdated, so I’m on a pc. I appreciate the bleak outlook on what’s going on though. Just yesterday, a co worker was having a problem logging into her workplace account, I told her that in order to type in capital letters she has to hold down shift for her username. She got upset and said why can’t this be like a smart phone.
It’s over. I accept defeat.
also you’d be amazed how many people use their phones over a pc these days.
Anyone else think it’s oddly convenient how this happens just after Rednote jumps in popularity?
It’s clearly pro-Trump propaganda, but I also can’t help but think there’s more than one motivation going on here. People are jumping to another platform, time to remind them that TikTok is still here! Can’t risk pulling an Elon and losing all those users to an alternative.
But I’m just thinking out loud here. I don’t use TikTok or Rednote, so I don’t know how well they compare. Thoughts?
I think China doesn’t want tiktok users to spread to rednote since they have a large domestic userbase already there, they don’t want influenced americans influencing the chinese population creating influenception.
You’re mistaken. Rednote updated allowing for EN->Mandarin translation for chinese native users and made the settings menu appear in english for english speaking users. The rumors you’ve heard about rednote bifurcating (like Douyin and TikTok) are only rumors.
It amazes me that people will form whole opinions like this with no effort, no personal investigation. You can literally use a vpn to browse it if you’re worried about your data, but I’m willing to bet that you have a marketing machine in your house that you welcomed with open arms. A majority of users on every social media have already had their data sold to every conceivable database, or are young enough that they don’t realize how many datapoints they’re making with their electronic footprint. Think about how likely it is that using a chinese app would actually affect you in any way - we’ve known for years now that health insurance and healthcare companies in the US that aren’t covered by the narrow scope of HIPAA are selling our information, but you’re worried about vine and instagram with storefronts included? Do you even know about marvel SNAP?
I’m completely out of the loop, for I have a flip phone that can’t even get on lemmy nor tiktok as its browser is outdated, so I’m on a pc. I appreciate the bleak outlook on what’s going on though. Just yesterday, a co worker was having a problem logging into her workplace account, I told her that in order to type in capital letters she has to hold down shift for her username. She got upset and said why can’t this be like a smart phone.
It’s over. I accept defeat.
also you’d be amazed how many people use their phones over a pc these days.