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don't think the Palestinian owner will be keen on selling his social media to those who killed his family

Anything to get that dopamine drip from the Black Rectangle

Yeah, I gave it a shot. I opened the app, and immediately scrolled past a “Jews are secretly ruling the world” conspiracy theory post from a user named something like @ItsAlwaysTheJews… Okay, maybe a fluke. Not a great first impression, but let’s see what else the app has to offer. Then a few posts later there was a “Hitler was right about the Jews” post.

So yeah, it has definitely fallen prey to the Nazi Bar problem.

Half the marketing seems to be "Did you know the founder is a Palestinian?"

Yeah, cool, hope his background helps bring some light on the atrocities being done 5o his kin. But when it comes to the app, he could be the first child to be born in Antarctica for all I care. Is the product any use?

This doesn't necessarily mean they're not being impartial.

If a side's position is the truth, they're going to support impartiality, because they want the truth to be spread, which supports their side.

TikTok is probably about to start moderating heavily in favour of a pro-Israel/anti-Palestine bias, just like other Western social media platforms. It's possible that all a startup would have to do is not do this to secure funding from Palestinian investors.

My only question is whether they'll allow progressive types on their platform long-term.

I feel like every platform outside of the Fediverse is like this nowadays.

For me it's news snippets, recipe ideas, 3d print ideas, and short form comedy. I look at it maybe 15min daily. Sometimes days without. My wife probably does 2hrs a day (stay home mother, homeschool teacher, honored caregiver). For her it's the entertainment that can be quickly put down, little investment involved.

How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely

In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn't know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.

The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate'm!!!

An app made by a Palestinian guy who's very much politically active participating in a no censorship gimmick? This was always the inevitable end result.

You get to watch a couple of videos only without logging in. No search.

Yikes.

They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn't have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.

And no doubt the web version will pop up a massive blocker requiring you to make an account to even browse.

That's a no from me, dog.

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