• BlameThePeacock
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    20 hours ago

    It’s not about the data, it’s about the control over what you see.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 hours ago

      Oh yeah because theres totally not propaganda on any major US social media sites. You really think X or Meta’s algorithms are any better? Id argue theyre probably worse actually, so I get why a lot of people would be more comfortable with a chinese app.

      • BlameThePeacock
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        7 hours ago

        It’s not the US government controlling the algorithm though, it’s a company. China actually controls what byte dance does directly.