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    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

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

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

        But seriously fucking the tankies.

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          Truth. But there’s something to be said for such large instances.

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            What is that something? “I am dissatisfied with how that instance that I’m not on and don’t need to use is run?” What are you whining about?

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              I can tell by your accusation of “whining” that you have no interest in a logical discussion so I’ll pass, thanks.

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          It’s not even that big compared to literally the two largest instances!

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            Yeah, actually. Of the top five four instances by MAU according to FediDB, lemmy.ml has 9% of the total user base.

            I know there a pie charts that illustrate this point better, but I can’t find them right now.

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              So here’s a question: how many of the top active communities does it host?

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                According to lemmyverse.net,

                One out of the top ten when sorting by MAU. That community is !memes@lemmy.ml.

                Say what you will about the Lemmy devs and their political leanings, but they did a great job at ensuring the broader Lemmy community would not centralize onto their instance.

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      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.

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      Average fedizen complaining about propaganda when they see fediverse propaganda

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    surprised pikachu face

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

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

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      LGBT content on rednote is usually posted with #le and #wlw, as far as I heard.

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      China is very accepting of LGBTQ. They welcome LGBTQ themes in their movies and media.

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      Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh and see what that gets you.

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

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      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.

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      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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        Bluesky is okay. And they have a few novel concepts around monetization. And I love the personalized feeds. But it’s just a matter of time. The more users they get, the bigger the offer gets from Zuck and Musk and databrokers, etc.

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    social media users calling themselves refugees and colonizing an app used by chinese and chinese americans just doesnt sit well with me, especially since it will just lead to chinese americans getting segregated from mainland chinese or having it banned completely.

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

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    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