cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24394554

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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don’t care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal “Chinese spy,” while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.

“This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren’t controlled by the same few oligarchs,” Quintin said. “People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks.”

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    The average user is confused by the idea that there are multiple instances of a single community, for example realizing that there is a /c/AskLemmy on multiple instances can be really confusing, especially for lay people who aren’t technically inclined.

    Isn’t the same on Reddit? How do people know what is the best community between /r/Games, /r/Gaming, ,/r/VideoGames, /r/TrueGaming?

    It is known for instance than /r/Canada isn’t as good as /r/OnGuardForThee , but that is something that people have to figure out too.

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Yes, and I think Reddit has struggled to gain the same number of users as other social media platforms - their UI is more challenging for a lot of people, and the experience of trying to find communities can be frustrating and confusing. It’s a good point, but I still found it fairly easy to find the main subreddit for a given community based on the activity going on. My point about fractured instances is that you don’t have something like two /c/Gaming communities that don’t overlap in users at all due to defederation. On Reddit a user is on a single instance with all the communities in one place. On Lemmy you have to find not just the community but also the instance that community is on (or an instance that federates with the instance the community is on). All of these extra steps are even more complicated, and remember Reddit’s interface was already confusing for lots of people.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I still found it fairly easy to find the main subreddit for a given community based on the activity going on.

        It is the same here. A community that would be on a defederated instance (like Beehaw’s community) are always less active than communities on generally federated instances like LW, Lemm.ee or SJW

        • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Sure, but depending on how fractures are created in the future, navigating which instances are federated together and where to be is itself complicated. I don’t think even the idea of “instances” is something most users are going to easily grok. It sets us up to have trouble receiving and retaining users.