cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24394554

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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.”

  • m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Was just talking with a friend that downloaded a Mastodon app a while back when Twitter was bought by Elon, encountered the “Choose a server” bit, and bailed after choice paralysis. They’re technical and have a doctorate in Computer Science so it’s not like they couldn’t figure it out, but there’s something in the human psyche where most people don’t want to make choices like that. They’re on Bluesky now and think its great.

    IMO sites like https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join and https://join-lemmy.org/ should just have a normal sign up flow, and load balance between all servers that opt in. Looks like that’s going to happen for Pixelfed:

    https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113830788279211715

    It’ll make some people unhappy, but that’s just how you get “normies” onto the Fediverse.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      for lemmy I had to try 3 times before landing on this one. just toxic shit constantly pumped my way where I was blocking pretty much everything and still getting more. I still have tons of stuff blocked though.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I had to leave Lemmy altogether for PieFed to finally be able to block an instance of my choosing, without admin support. Tbf I hear that Sync and Connect can let you do that on Lemmy.

        But these Category of Communities yo, they are really worthwhile!:-)

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Been debating on spinning up my own Lemmy instance and was looking at piefed instead of lemmy-lemmy lol

          Heard it wasn’t on parity with implementing the full Lemmy API, how has it been for you? Any issues?