Looks like they're starting to geolock some users, so americans mostly see posts/comments made from the US
Can't people just not be racist
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At least the chuds are screeching though lol
no, it's literally rednote: as in the name the official company chose
even then, based
Honestly since I've learned about how the Chinese people seem to be taking it and really like the interaction with "us" I've been more interested in checking out weibo. That seems more similar to this and is more about communicating instead of pictures and videos of specific topics.
Just can't make an account for some reason lol keep getting errors in Chinese even though I'm using the international site lol
Yeah seems like Rednote is specifically centered around lifestyle and art while Weibo and Baidu are for general use
Everybody there is so nice
The saddest downvotes are the “shoot the messenger” downvotes. I find this fact inconvenient so ⬇
i need to figure out how to make the rick & morty "your boos mean nothing to me; i've seen what makes you cheer" meme more accessible somehow for this exact reason. lol
Uhmmmm no thanks lol WTF
If only there was a no button...
But why would any legitimate app ask for a permission for which there is practically no legitimate use? I thought Rednote was a social media thing, not a Caller application, so why does it need to make and manage phone calls on my behalf?
What else is it doing that it doesn't need to ask permissions for? Please think critically.
And yes before someone mentions It, yes this can be used for getting a phone number automatically, but It can just prompt for my phone number (which it doesn't need anyway, unless you post), no legitimate need to ask for such a broad permission.
More to the point, why tf are y'all so chill about this? Surely this is like literally a sign of malware 101? Like I'm only a compsci & cybersec grad so what do I know, but this to me is equivalent to opening "not a virus.exe" from "veryrealmoviedownload.com". Literally first malware I got as a kid on Android was like this.
I thought awareness of this was pretty commonplace. The below image is literally a Facebook-tier meme that even grampa probably knows.
Are y'all just that desperate for a win? Sorry, good things don't actually happen in our hell world.
Is this a normal thing for apps to do these days? I don't use any other SM apart from Lemmy and only F-Droid FOSS apps so i'd legitimately like to know. Does tiktok also prompt for making and managing phone calls?
Basically every mainstream social media apps do want your contacts these days, yes. Obviously bad for OPSEC so you should avoid them if you're worried about that even after blocking those permissions.
"Contacts" is a very very different permission from making and managing phone calls, and is prompted for separately.
The former harvests data, the latter can be used to steal money directly via the same mechanism we used to text numbers to buy ringtones and J2ME apps back in the day.
Now I'm not saying that Rednote is definitively malware and I actually kinda like some of the content I saw, which I couldn't say for TikTok (I'm way too ADHD for short form videos, it's very unstimulating), but maybe just keep it in mind.
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lmao what the fuck
Thousands of people download this shit too.
There's a "don't allow" button right there. And the message on top of it for "System Permissions" literally says, "you can say no to giving permissions and only certain functions of the app will not work"
I don't know what the issue is here. You can probably call people through the app, since you sign up with a phone number.
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