As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time

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
- Oof I’m glad to see we are learning the right lessons from this.
- Sure, the problem is, that male nipples are allowed in the West, not the other way round...
  
  Equality is equality 🤷🏻‍♂️
  Either we ban male nipples or let female nipples fly. Both would then be equal. One way would just be more fun than the other.
- Meh, that's just a cultural difference

- Try testing your "fediverse freedom" on .ml and see how long your account lasts.
  
  Can just switch to the next instance. There are dozens!
  But seriously fucking the tankies.
  
  .ml =/= Fediverse
  That's like saying:
  China = Planet Earth
  
  lemmy.ml is not even a large instance compared to lemmy.world or lemm.ee
- 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.
  
  Was something supposed to happen?
  
  crickets
  
  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
  
  Say that 14 years ago on reddit, and nobody would give a shit. Say it today on Lemmy and it’s not protected speech.
- Average fedizen complaining about propaganda when they see fediverse propaganda
  
  Let's just water down that word until it means nothing...

Goes to an app made by the CCP and gets censorship. Who saw that one coming? /s

surprised pikachu face

Tiktok....we got Loops. Just sign up!
- It's still in closed beta. You can't "just sign up."
  
  You can. You sign up on the website, you get an email telling you to install the app a day or two later. It's a very open "closed beta"
- @werefreeatlast @morrowind there is a fedi tictoc equivalent?
  
  https://loops.video/
- Loops isn't as good and xiahongshu is fun in a seperate way than tiktok
  
  I love how separately fun you must be.

Really because I’m also seeing that LGBTQIA+ posting on rednote is accepted so which is it guys? Let’s find out
- They're scrambling to hire more mods, especially for english rn, so I wouldn't pass judgement yet
- There's tons of it, even in Chinese so I call bullshit
  
  Same, these media outlets post pure trash just to get people to view them.
- LGBT content on rednote is usually posted with #le and #wlw, as far as I heard.
- Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh and see what that gets you.
- China is very accepting of LGBTQ. They welcome LGBTQ themes in their movies and media.

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

I wonder how many actually notice

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.

Them asians and aussies have the right idea having gov IDs for internet access
- Every time it's being recommended it's always falling apart because they can never actually come up with a safe ID verification system. It's just idiot politicians who come up with these policies without thinking them through, don't be praising that kind of lackluster thought process.
  
  The idea is solid even if the execution is awful. I didn't say they were doing it WELL. Just that keeping track of who is doing what online will be v v v important is body enhancements grow in popularity. You really want black hats hacking people's body parts? Lemmy is kek sometimes
  
  That sounds like you agree the idea isn't bad just the execution btw lmao... :D
- Aussies aren't giving anyone ID at this point in time
  There is currently no solution or implementation for the social media access law
  
  Well they're trending in that direction. Wise move honestly. We haven't evolved to have smart phones or social media, especially children.
- Hilarious you all downvote when it's true. You mostly work in tech and are this ignorant? Wild
  
  Yes good you advocate for such a perfect world where everybody's online activity can be constantly tracked. Fuck yeah, surveillance states rock! I love it when laws exist that require me to offer my full name, dob and address to every shady website in existence! /s
  In regards to you coming to a tech forum, making tech commentary, and then thinking everyone else is ignorant for disagreeing with you, might I offer you some light reading?

I can talk about Palestine without having my comments removed or shadowbanned. US social media is run by Zionists.
- And tiananmen square?
  
  Its not run by Zionists
- You're free to start your own social media where you'll allow it, that's how free speech works, as long as the place where you're sharing your message is owned by private interests, the owner can censor you all they want.
  
  Yeah in a perfect world. In reality social media companies can't scale without finance and the blessing of government, both of whom are pro Israel.
- tool
  
  TikTok was banned because of Zionist lobbying to censor pro Palestinian content.
  US Social media platforms like Meta have been aggressively censoring Palestinian content.
  https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and
  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/meta-censorship-devastating-palestinian-news-sources
  Jonathan Greenblatt. ADL director gave it away last year in a leaked recording when he said "we have a TikTok problem".
  https://youtube.com/shorts/0f4cbLic3aA
  Here he is being even more explicit:
  https://x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1878466080840065193

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
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  Pssst... Hey, hey buddy! You got and question marks? I just used my last one.
  
  It's times, like, this I miss CommaHorror