American Tiktok users would rather use ACTUAL Chinese spyware app than Meta. XiaoHongShu (meaning “Little Red Book”) and ChatGPT (for translating the Mandarin only app) are currently #1 and #2 on the App store.
American Tiktok users would rather use ACTUAL Chinese spyware app than Meta. XiaoHongShu (meaning “Little Red Book”) and ChatGPT (for translating the Mandarin only app) are currently #1 and #2 on the App store.
Pro Tip: Loops is a federated short form video platform.
Doesn’t surprise me though, that most will jump ship to another Chinese spyware instead.
Loops is great but it’s not a TikTok replacement for the average TikTok user. The average TikTok user likes TikTok’s algorithms
That is a fair point, but I’ve seen @dansup@mastodon.social talking about what he plans to do about the algorithm to keep privacy-friendly. If I’m not wrong, I recall something along the lines of having the option to self-host your own algorithm recommendation.
Self-hosting your own recommendations would be amazing. I’m on the Testflight waitlist for Loops, hope I can get access soon.
Yeah, that would be dope. An average user probably won’t use it, though. But having the option is great, and for user who don’t opt in for self-hosting probably an option to export their algorithm data would be cool, for things like changing instances.
A lot of them are going to it because it’s Chinese Spyware, just to be petty to the government.
Holy ideology, Batman!
Huh!?
You heard me.
And it seems to be working… just saw a politician say that they need to re-review the tiktok ban citing rednote
Implementation is too slow - no plug and play app - why would they use it over an app you just need to download to use? I mean same problem as with all federation software: no central guarantors that you will always be able to chat with everyone, too much politics between all instances involved etc. which honestly is the whole point, but that’s not what normies want.
You can also just download loops? Afaik there is only one instance at the moment either way
No App in neither play store nor f-droid nor GitHub with obtainium please provide a link. I registered this morning (EU time so ~10h ago) on the website and still don’t have an admission Email. That’s just not normie friendly to make it a big app, while right now would’ve been the time to fill the maybe void of tiktok, the execution is just too damn sloppy.
Pixelfed app can’t play loops as well btw