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.”

  • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Regarding the fediverse at large…

    I believe that this is a design issue. Instances are designed so that they function like categories. That categories then have subcategories.

    The issue is that with user distribution, you can’t then just assign users round robin distribute the load. This leads to what we now have which is very confusing to the end user.

    Users was a centralized experience. The duplication of communities is a prime example of the bad design.

    In the abstract, I would consider putting all instances in a pool. Each instance runs a different community, with servers also duplicating x number of communities for the sake of redundancy (instance goes offline, content still exists on another server). It’s complicated, and has it’s own issues/flaws, but I believe that from a high level view, it is a better design in general.

    The current system is just a mess unfortunately.

    Perhaps there could be a hybrid of these two approaches that would be superior.

    My back of the napkin design prioritizes user experience and ease of use. That said, I can immediately think of a few downsides.

    • Scott M. Stolz@loves.tech
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      2 hours ago

      Right now the user’s identity and the content they consume & interact with are too intertwined in many cases.

      There are two aspects here:

      1. The user’s home base, which is basically which server or app they log into.
      2. The communities they belong to, which can be on any server anywhere on the fediverse.

      We have to get out of the mindset that the server you sign up on is your community, because with federation, you are not limited to the server you sign up on.