Great job, US government. You went so overboard with your “TikTok is an evil Chinese app” and deciding to ban it that you’re pushing kids to go even deeper into the Chinese app ecosystem. The US go…
I’m not suggesting they move to other American platforms though there’s a lot of overlap in the userbase of all of those apps and because this kind of social media is addictive, I don’t think they will boycott these platforms for a long period of time.
There’s 150 million or so American users on Tik Tok, and it seems like maybe only about a million of them have moved to rednote.
To put this in perspective, Apple stopped selling small iPhones because they didn’t make up enough of the market to justify continued sales and they sold way more than a million of them (3% of iphone sales which is about 45million iPhone minis sold just from a quick Google search).
I can appreciate wanting to protest. I can appreciate the effort that it takes to organize etc. But I don’t think this will do much of anything except be seen as token resistance.
Moderation of an influx of 1 million new users who don’t speak the same language will be difficult right at first but rednote themselves say they’re hiring more English speaking moderators. So rest assured they will be moderating that content eventually.
Agree to all, but just to add clarity, there is existing Mandarin LGBT content that was posted prior to the US influx. If there is moderation of queer voices going on, it’s a a similar level to what we are already familiar with from Meta and TikTok, not significantly more.
I’m not suggesting they move to other American platforms though there’s a lot of overlap in the userbase of all of those apps and because this kind of social media is addictive, I don’t think they will boycott these platforms for a long period of time.
There’s 150 million or so American users on Tik Tok, and it seems like maybe only about a million of them have moved to rednote.
To put this in perspective, Apple stopped selling small iPhones because they didn’t make up enough of the market to justify continued sales and they sold way more than a million of them (3% of iphone sales which is about 45million iPhone minis sold just from a quick Google search).
I can appreciate wanting to protest. I can appreciate the effort that it takes to organize etc. But I don’t think this will do much of anything except be seen as token resistance.
Moderation of an influx of 1 million new users who don’t speak the same language will be difficult right at first but rednote themselves say they’re hiring more English speaking moderators. So rest assured they will be moderating that content eventually.
Agree to all, but just to add clarity, there is existing Mandarin LGBT content that was posted prior to the US influx. If there is moderation of queer voices going on, it’s a a similar level to what we are already familiar with from Meta and TikTok, not significantly more.