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.
The app was made in Palestine (or by displaced refugees), so they aren’t shy about showing the reality of the genocide.
They also are anti-censorship, which means that most of the English-speaking communities tend to be… Sympathizers of a certain German leader.
So if you want to wade into it, keep those things in mind.
I didn’t know those information. Thanks for the provided info. I’m not at all going to get into the app though. Not even appealing since it has 4 red flags (as mentioned in post)