Learned about this social media called “UpScrolled” just now. What are your thoughts on it?

I actually searched it up online in order to know more and on Reddit, the reputation was not much good. For example, they were saying the platform is full of porn and gore and stuff. Another user was saying that they wouldn’t be surprised if Zionists were filling up the platform with such stuff (because there’s a lot of anti-Zionists and FreePalestine-movement supporters there.

Aside from this, I searched the app up on Aurora Store and it showed it has 4 trackers (which is a red flag for me). These trackers are: Sentry, Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core, OneSignal, Google Firebase Analytics.

My thoughts so far: As a Big Tech’s alternative, I expected it to be at least decentralized and have no harmful trackers. But nope. It isn’t decentralized, has trackers, not even open-source, has ads. Was disappointing to me.

  • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Well, I’ve never tried it, but I don’t really see the point of it.

    There’s already Mastodon or any other number of similar services. There’s Pixelfed and any other number of similar services. Lemmy, Piefed… What does UpScrolled do for me?

    Seemingly, nothing. I don’t care.

    • pir8t0x@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 days ago

      Apparently, a lot of people are switching to it after Tiktok got acquired by US. But it’s more like Instagram rather than Tiktok IMO

      • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I read about that on Wikipedia. It said that it’s kinda like Instagram and Twitter.

        I mean, I get the rejection of TikTok, at least… Seems like an odd choice for a refuge, but whatever. Have you tried it out yet?

              • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                3 days ago

                Ah, I see! Yes, from my cursory look I figured it wasn’t decentralised, but it’s not even open-source and the trackers… I don’t know much about trackers at all, not sure how harmless those might be or if they’re for anonymised analytics, for example. Frankly, the simple fact it has ads (and I assume there’s no easy way to remove them like with ReVanced for YT) is a deal-breaker. Everything else is just piss on the shit sandwich.

                Thanks for the update!

                • pir8t0x@lemmy.mlOP
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                  3 days ago

                  Yup, there’s nothing appealing to it honestly. There’s absolutely no reason to use it or even give it a chance after knowing all these red flags