As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance
Privacy advocates are also warning against using the app.
I love how in the article they are presenting this as "people looking for a tiktok alternative". Instagram and YT shorts are right there, the people joining this app are either doing it in protest or following the trend that those people started. Most of the people joining probably aren't going to it because of it's prior reputation as a stelar app or because they think it will protect their data.
Although those platforms also provide short form content, their algorithms are pretty terrible. Also, Instagram's reels are absolutely flooded with ads, sponsored videos, and undisclosed branded content.
Instagram's reels are absolutely flooded with ads, sponsored videos, and undisclosed branded content.
I used TikTok about a year ago and it seemed pretty bad in these regards. Has it gotten better since I left?
Instagram is basically an advertising platform at this point and youtube shorts doesn't have the same feel to it.
TikTok like Vine before it was built from the ground up with this kind of functionality and content in mind, Instagram and youtube were not and it shows.
It is very early days, but loops looks promising as a genuine alternative.
They're shit replacements. So much to that YouTube has gone down in downloads this week and IG is only up like 10%.
I find it amusing that Americans trust Chinese social media over American businesses.
I think it’s more of a general apathy towards privacy than it is trusting any particular organization
Yeah, the people on TikTok (or RedNote) aren't really the ones concerned about big corporations on anything but an aesthetic level.
China is half a world away and isn't directly involved in my day to day. The harms that China can do to me are significantly less than those American businesses.
It's not about trust, it's about accurate threat modeling.
This is the correct take. Anyone who paid the least amount of attention to Snowden's revelations know that the USA harvests absolutely everything online. Americans have more to fear from their info being misused by their own government and the corporations that own it than by the Chinese. The push to ban TikTok is just an attempt to cut out the spying competition. And jingoistic Sinophobia.
So the Chinese government is spying on me, I'm literally never going to China, plus they have backdoor access to like every cheap security camera on the planet.
It's a better position than giving all my info to one of the u.s. companies where it has a real effect on me, especially now.
i think part of it is that people kinda expect china to be spying, so it's a devil you know.
I suppose it's one group that they know won't be selling data back to the American government
Trust in Meta cratering to new lows, TikTok being banned.
I totally get wanting to be on a bandwagon, I think this is the perfect time to get onto PixelFed but to go to (Little) RedNote instead? Could they make China's effective ownership of the platform any more obvious?
It didn't have s chance, iirc someone promoted RedNote on TikTok...
The phrase "cut off your own nose to spite your face" comes to mind.
(Most of) Those who transfer there are absolutely aware of the surveillance and are doing it to say "fuck you" to the US government
Do they allow Winnie the Pooh memes?
Given that they have a list of 500 some nicknames you're not allowed to use for him, probably not.
Plz us software approved by your fed, plebs!
You don't want chinaman fed spying on you now, do you?!
RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users
"In the "TikTokCringe" subreddit, a video from a RedNote user with red eyes, presumably swollen from tears, suggested that Americans had possibly ruined the app for Chinese Americans who rely on RedNote to stay current on Chinese news and culture."
Yeah, somehow I don't think a social media platform controlled by the CCP is going to be a good way to stay current on Chinese news.
Do you think the people going to a Chinese app cared? They don't trust American companies sooo much they left to let there data get harvested by another state
Oh no a tech company is gonna spy on us!!! That’s never happened before and people are very concerned about it!!!
Lol
“Surveillance”
It's true! Surveillance from the United States is extreme! They don't want people to know how China is actually a better country then ours.
I doubt any privacy advocate would recommend any social media.
Thats why Chinese come to the US on boats and cross the Mexican boarded by the hundreds of thousands. https://youtu.be/M7TNP2OTY2g
