They are stealing data that can be (and is, often) used to track you across the entire internet. many social media platforms (again, especially tiktok) use this data to straight up manipulate people into spending more time on their platform and having views that align with the interests of the company. this is especially bad if the interests of the company are really the interests of an authoritarian government that is blatantly hostile to other countries unprovoked.
Not Chinese bad, Chinese government bad. because the Chinese government has so much control, Chinese companies can’t be trusted. yes, stolen data is bad. I know that data is being stolen anyway, but tiktok has historically been very bad about it. however, i was reffering to them moving from one shitty Chinese platform to another even more shitty and even more Chinese (as in controlled more by the Chinese government) one, when there are platforms that are from places that do not have an authoritarian government able to control any company if they so choose. of course something like instagram (reels) or youtube shorts isn’t much better in terms of data theft, but who has the data does matter no matter how hard you’re coping.
fucking idiots
it does seem to have the loading thing, I’ll reply again here if it still happens or maybe mention it on matrix (same username).
using this comment to test
I’m on the latest version. I’ve only seen the null check thing on stuff from other platforms but as mbin is fairly small thats just what I use, so I doubt it’s related.
the main one I’m still having repeatably right now is that sometimes when I go to post something, especially a comment, the button does not seem to work, so I press it again thinking I missed and it gets posted twice. I also sometimes have an issue where up/downvoting makes a thing pop up saying “null check operator used on null value”. it also happened when trying to unfollow a community from an instance I had recently blocked.
I’m not sure about self-hosting (not feasible for me right now) but as a user it’s not bad. I can say I haven’t seen anyone complaining about it yet.
to anyone looking for somewhere other than Lemmy I’d like to suggest mbin. I’ll admit it’s not perfect (especially on mobile, interstellar is decent but it’s the only app and has some bugs) but it handles reddit-style content pretty much the same as Lemmy except for the lack of read-marking on posts. as a bonus, it handles microblogs so you can see those without an account on mastodon or something similar.
you are aware that you aren’t restricted to things on your instance right? what your talking about is literally what the fediverse is. also who cares how big an instance is?
nice I can scroll like a person now
no idea, I mostly use it to be able to read microblogs and reply to them while still using threads primarily all on one account. my best guess is microblog-only things don’t see the community and threads-only things see it as a regular thread formatted like a microblog.
nice. I should mention that the microblogs need to be put in a magazine (community) as well, but you can always just use the random one.
kinda, but you still have to put the microblogs in a community. it’s a little odd but I like it.
I use mbin and it does threads and microblogs. it’s a little janky at times and there is only one app (interstellar, android) but I like it.
sounds like they are doing what the 3ds did with some upgrades. hopefully the “AI” is actually useful instead of just being injected into a product that doesn’t need it.
how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it’d be unfair not to mention them)?
well I’d say since non-federated Lemmy is just a forum with a bunch of stuff for federation that you won’t use, there’s no point. if you want a forum, then Lemmy is the wrong answer. Lemmy is (or at least is designed to be) an open-source, federated copy of reddit, keeping the good parts while removing the corpo stuff and adding the benefits that open-source and federation bring. with only one instance, it’s little more than a mediocre forum.
why use Lemmy instead of just being a normal forum if you aren’t going to federate?
nice. I don’t like that kind of social media, but that means the fediverse is getting attention and people may start migrating here instead of to progressively more privacy-violating platforms.