I get that it is the most organic thing you have ever felt, but that should be itself something that makes you raise an eyebrow.

A foreign language service that does not cater to you, in a language you don’t speak, and theoretically has none of your prior data is perfectly catering a social media experience tailored individually to you, and doing it on a level that no corporation who has been targeting and grooming you for 20 years has been able to achieve.

Either your comment itself is inorganic and mere advertising promising impossibilities, or you are a genuine person offering such extreme praise but we need to be skeptical here.

You aren’t saying the app is good. You are saying it is the best experience you have ever been provided, and if that is the case, this app has some explaining to do on how they achieved that.

Genuine or not, your thoughts on the matter are weird, so weird that it becomes hard to even respond to.

From the article somebody further up posted up, rednote has had about half a million downloads from app stores in the US.

TikTok’s US consumer base is about 136 million if my memory of what was said on NPR a couple mornings ago is accurate.

While I am sure that number will be growing, a lot of the feeling of everybody moving to redhorse appears to be astroturfing.

Like… they had a 50,000 person live event that sounds awfully a lot like like a recruitment seminar/product orientation.

This isn’t organic.

Meta has replaced third places, public square and community directories and then sells that access to other media.

It is a conflict of interest for the community directors themselves to profiting off things which harm the community.

To the best of my knowledge, Mastodon does not have that conflict of interest.