• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    Oh my god, this made me laugh!

    the majority of the content on the platform is photo slideshows coupled with text, which is why people often view it more as a competitor to Instagram than TikTok.

    Which is super ironic given that instagram changed everything to push short video content and compete with tiktok

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    1 day ago

    “I would rather stare at a language I can’t understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.

    then why tf did you use tiktok

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        16 hours ago

        Don’t they do the same things? In fact TikTok spies more stuff, but they just don’t sell it to private entities as much.

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          6 hours ago

          Tiktok doesn’t push neo-Nazi propaganda as aggressively as X did and it doesn’t censor news with class consciousness like Meta does.

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            5 hours ago

            X is Musk, which is TL;DR quite different

            it doesn’t censor news with class consciousness like Meta does

            Maybe? But they do manually tell the algorithm to heavily favor the elite’s videos with their “heating” tool.