cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24394554

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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.”

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Each instance runs a different community, with servers also duplicating x number of communities for the sake of redundancy (instance goes offline, content still exists on another server). It’s complicated, and has it’s own issues/flaws, but I believe that from a high level view, it is a better design in general.

    How are policies/moderation decisions discussed between the instances? That’s why you have different versions of the same instance, because [email protected] and [email protected] are going to be quite different

    • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      No more instance based communities. Instead instances are assigned to groups of servers for redundancy and you end up with a more centralized experience.

      Essentially you end up with a server cluster.