There are a large number of unanswered questions about the Fediverse. I don’t just mean questions that users may have, but questions for which no suitable answer exists yet. Some are extremely abstract and existential like “will the Fediverse survive the next decade?” Other questions are very concrete like, “What is the copyright status of a federated post?” or “What are the moral implications of federating content that may be harmful or recording a crime?”
I wonder, for those of you who stay up nights thinking about the Fediverse, which question is the most important to you?
It’s banned in china
So is TikTok… China funds lots of things that are banned there.
TikTok is not banned in china.
Excuse me, TikTok is “unavailable” in China
That’s not true either…
tiktok is completely allowed in china
it’s called douyin and is the same thing owned by the same company
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/ https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-bytedance-ban-china-india-376f32d78861e14e65ec4bc78e808a0d You can’t even get it in Hong Kong anymore via AP
It’s owned by the same company and is the same app with a different name…
tiktok just has a different name in china…
It is factually not, it is a version of the app that is separate and goes through the Chinese censors. If they were the same you’d just be able to use the same app.
it is factually just different brand-name.
Everything in china goes through the chinese censors, nobody is saying that china isn’t heavily censored, but that’s tiktok and it’s available in china. Who cares about the name? So many things have different names by country.
It wouldn’t even surprise me if China was sponsoring something and still banning it out of habit.