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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In a separate post, a male user expressed frustration after RedNote censored a photo of his upper body. “Why can’t I post photos of my fitness and abs?” he asked, adding he had “never had such a problem on TikTok and Instagram.”

A Chinese user suggested that he try covering his nipples, as Chinese social media platforms generally impose restrictions on displaying them when it is perceived as sexually suggestive.

Oof ouch my male privilege

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago

Oof I’m glad to see we are learning the right lessons from this.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Sure, the problem is, that male nipples are allowed in the West, not the other way round...

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Try testing your "fediverse freedom" on .ml and see how long your account lasts.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can just switch to the next instance. There are dozens!

But seriously fucking the tankies.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.ml =/= Fediverse

That's like saying:

China = Planet Earth

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

lemmy.ml is not even a large instance compared to lemmy.world or lemm.ee

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You want to test that "Fediverse Freedom" say "every billionaire in the world, their wives, parents and children shall be torn apart with random farming machinery and/or prostituted to death whichever is funnier" and see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Was something supposed to happen?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Average fedizen complaining about propaganda when they see fediverse propaganda

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Let's just water down that word until it means nothing...

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago

Goes to an app made by the CCP and gets censorship. Who saw that one coming? /s

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

surprised pikachu face

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Really because I’m also seeing that LGBTQIA+ posting on rednote is accepted so which is it guys? Let’s find out

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

They're scrambling to hire more mods, especially for english rn, so I wouldn't pass judgement yet

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's tons of it, even in Chinese so I call bullshit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Same, these media outlets post pure trash just to get people to view them.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Tiktok....we got Loops. Just sign up!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's still in closed beta. You can't "just sign up."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

You can. You sign up on the website, you get an email telling you to install the app a day or two later. It's a very open "closed beta"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Huh. I’ll do that later today then

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can talk about Palestine without having my comments removed or shadowbanned. US social media is run by Zionists.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, mentioning the square in rednote?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

People have been doing that tons - It's not being censored. Personally I assume this is due to western propaganda overstating the degree of censorship in china and rednote not being set up to moderate the large amounts of english content they're now getting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's worth mentioning that 60% of TikTok is owned by international investors, a fact that escapes the anti China hysteria

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Interesting how you completely avoid the question 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You're free to start your own social media where you'll allow it, that's how free speech works, as long as the place where you're sharing your message is owned by private interests, the owner can censor you all they want.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

TikTok was banned because of Zionist lobbying to censor pro Palestinian content.

US Social media platforms like Meta have been aggressively censoring Palestinian content.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/meta-censorship-devastating-palestinian-news-sources

Jonathan Greenblatt. ADL director gave it away last year in a leaked recording when he said "we have a TikTok problem".

https://youtube.com/shorts/0f4cbLic3aA?si=uvk6cBVqPksRScBU

Here he is being even more explicit:

https://x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1878466080840065193?t=Dn0e4zeJyptwcGL7pmpM0Q&s=19

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I smell the same flavour of bullshit about RedNote that I do/did about Bluesky. The articles are so obviously Astro turfing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Twitter and all its alternatives always tend to get inflated coverage because twitter was essentially the journalists' app, so they write about it more. Bluesky was the first "real" alternative I guess.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bluesky is "fine" if what you want is Twitter without [as much] fascism. It's a better user experience than Mastodon. The average user doesn't care about federation and all the rough edges where you have to understand technical details in order to understand what's going on is frustrating for them.

I hope Mastodon learns some lessons from Bluesky (curated follow/block lists, and curated feed algorithms) but I still hope federation is the future. Bluesky will eventually enshittify because it has financial backers who want a return and could give a fuck about uses or ethics. But for the time being it's a good platform, and perhaps more importantly the best shot at breaking Twitter, and I will strategically support it while it remains a good alternative.

Rednote I have no idea about. Not happy about Chinese propaganda and censorship, but not any happier about right-wing American propaganda and censorship, so fuck it. I haven't made an account yet but I might at some point. TikTok was by far the best algorithm at delivering what I want to see in the moment, and as I only spent a handful of minutes a day on TikTok on average, that's really valuable.

Insta is useless as you seem to have to curate your feed to only be a single thing. Plus, fuck Meta in the ear. So if Rednote gets the content creators and the algorithm, I'll probably check it out eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Dumbasses, lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

what no way that’s insane no way to have foreseen that unpossible completely from out of left field actual mental institution status confirmed oh shit pizzas done l8ter dudes

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