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RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

To bad they didn't hear about Loops. I don't use this stuff so I have no idea if it's good or not, but it's not Chinese or collecting your data so it would be worth a try. Although if 400k users flooded it I have serious doubts they could scale to meet a demand like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is it federated?

Not sure why we're all excited for the next centralized platform. We should be rolling up our sleeves and figuring out ways to implement decentralized protocols so anyone can their platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

@john89 @HeyJoe Loops is federated - it's being set up by the guy behind Pixelfed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The scalability is my concern too. It took me like 8 days after I signed up before I got my login to Loops.

Gotta say I really like it, though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Loops is unfortunately not ready for 70 million new users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I signed for loops for awhile. Still no account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was waitlist for a while, not sure if it still is but I got my welcome email like a week later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was able to make my account immediately, just this morning. Not on Google Play yet though, had to download the apk manually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How long did you wait? I submitted for an account a few days ago. Not even a confirmation email saying anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No waiting; the email was in my inbox as soon as I applied.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Hm... Let me try again maybe with a different email.