Now that TikTok has been ruined, I decided to check out RedNote (Xiaohongshu) again.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

Now that TikTok has been ruined, I decided to check out RedNote (Xiaohongshu) again. It's only fair to let China have some of my data too. 🇨🇳

[gina@fosstodon.org]

*5 min of swiping later*

Should I... move to China?

[bigbrownepaul@fosstodon.org]

@Gina properly funny stuff, but however bad our feelings are towards big tech and currently the USA, what the people of China deal with on a day to day basis is terrifying.

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@Gina

I'm one of the minority that never installed TikTok. Same with Snapchat btw, to make me even lonelier 🤪

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@Gina

You have a very specific FOMO+OCD combo me think.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@tsvenson lol I'm 30+ so I've never used Snapchat either. But TikTok was really funny and socially relevant for a while, before US politics started messing with it.

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@Gina

I avoided both, TikTok most, because of the risk getting stuck in doom-scrolling. Knowing myself, I think it was a good choice.