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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.”

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    9 hours ago

    Reddit got quite successfull over the years.

    I think the potential audience for lemmy is huge, just that people havent gotten the same marketing hype/trend like you pointed out.

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      Reddit userbase absolutely skyrocketed when Obama (then president) did an AMA. The site was never quite the same after that