It’s chinese instagram and tiktok started advertising it heavily recently so a bunch of idiots fell for it and switched to rednote. it is even worse than tiktok.
It’s chinese instagram and tiktok started advertising it heavily recently so a bunch of idiots fell for it and switched to rednote. it is even worse than tiktok.
it should be considered harassment to advertise like this
They are stealing data that can be (and is, often) used to track you across the entire internet. many social media platforms (again, especially tiktok) use this data to straight up manipulate people into spending more time on their platform and having views that align with the interests of the company. this is especially bad if the interests of the company are really the interests of an authoritarian government that is blatantly hostile to other countries unprovoked.
Not Chinese bad, Chinese government bad. because the Chinese government has so much control, Chinese companies can’t be trusted. yes, stolen data is bad. I know that data is being stolen anyway, but tiktok has historically been very bad about it. however, i was reffering to them moving from one shitty Chinese platform to another even more shitty and even more Chinese (as in controlled more by the Chinese government) one, when there are platforms that are from places that do not have an authoritarian government able to control any company if they so choose. of course something like instagram (reels) or youtube shorts isn’t much better in terms of data theft, but who has the data does matter no matter how hard you’re coping.
ubuntu is an excellent base, but there’s no reason to use it over other distros based on it. it does nothing better than others and forces snaps on you to the point of not even having flatpak installed by default unlike almost every other distro that is even remotely modern.
fucking idiots
it came from the term “tomcat”, meaning a male cat.
i blocked .ml because I got tired of constantly seeing political content. there’s still political stuff in other places but holy shit .ml won’t shut the fuck up
putting shit in space is still too expensive and wastefull for it to be cost-effective and/or profitable.
it does seem to have the loading thing, I’ll reply again here if it still happens or maybe mention it on matrix (same username).
using this comment to test
I’m on the latest version. I’ve only seen the null check thing on stuff from other platforms but as mbin is fairly small thats just what I use, so I doubt it’s related.
the main one I’m still having repeatably right now is that sometimes when I go to post something, especially a comment, the button does not seem to work, so I press it again thinking I missed and it gets posted twice. I also sometimes have an issue where up/downvoting makes a thing pop up saying “null check operator used on null value”. it also happened when trying to unfollow a community from an instance I had recently blocked.
probably south africa
I’m not sure about self-hosting (not feasible for me right now) but as a user it’s not bad. I can say I haven’t seen anyone complaining about it yet.
“weed’s not habit forming” nothing is dipshit the brain gets addicted to whatever you enjoy too much, drugs just fuck with the part that does that.
to anyone looking for somewhere other than Lemmy I’d like to suggest mbin. I’ll admit it’s not perfect (especially on mobile, interstellar is decent but it’s the only app and has some bugs) but it handles reddit-style content pretty much the same as Lemmy except for the lack of read-marking on posts. as a bonus, it handles microblogs so you can see those without an account on mastodon or something similar.
you are aware that you aren’t restricted to things on your instance right? what your talking about is literally what the fediverse is. also who cares how big an instance is?
I can’t believe you would post a picture like this.
nice. I don’t like that kind of social media, but that means the fediverse is getting attention and people may start migrating here instead of to progressively more privacy-violating platforms.