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."
There is a community here dedicated to a specific influencer. Not going to give the name to avoid brigading, but they've been around for almost a year now, and are able to use the platform.
They came here when their subreddit got banned, and as Lemmy is similar enough to Reddit, they just were able to continue their discussions here. They acknowledge themselves that are aren't definitely the most technical users.
Might be easier for a particular subreddit to move (the same thing happened with /r/196 when they got banned, they moved to Lemmy), and in that case I don't think the problems I described matter as much because the social activity is already centralized to that one community. But that's a rather niche situation, most users are not dedicated to a single subreddit or community and they want to consume content from a variety of places.
My point was more than as bad as the Lemmy UI is said to be, it's still close enough to Reddit so that non technical users can just move here and not be lost
I pretty much agree with the UI itself being fairly close to Reddit, and I think a Reddit user wouldn't find it too complicated to move here and be able to comment and post. My critique isn't as much that aspect of Lemmy's UI (which I think is impressive and pretty great), but more about the way federation can be confusing and thus alienating to users. The user experience (UX) overall is much worse in the Fediverse for lay users who are expecting this to be a typical centralized social media site.
They can ignore the federation aspect and still use the site. You see quite a few people here not even knowing what their instance is. For them Lemmy is just their Lemmy mobile app and that's it