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Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative (restofworld.org)

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Within hours of the deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations being announced last week, Issam Hijazi noticed a big uptick in users to his social media platform UpScrolled. That stream of disgruntled users fleeing TikTok over censorship concerns turned into a flood this week, crashing UpScrolled’s servers.

UpScrolled, launched last July, supports text posts, photos, short-form videos, stories and other features. It claims to be a platform with “no censorship” and “no shadowbans.” On Monday, it ranked among the top 10 free apps on Apple’s App Store, and No. 2 among social network apps. It hit more than 1 million users from just 40,000.

“You all showed up so fast our servers tapped out,” UpScrolled said in an Instagram post on Monday. “We’re a tiny team building an alternative to the platforms that stopped listening to you. Right now, we’re scaling and running on caffeine to keep up with what YOU started. Bear with us. We’re on it.”

UpScrolled is backed by the Tech for Palestine incubator, an advocacy project that helps fund tech initiatives to support the Palestinian cause. Hijazi, a Palestinian-Australian, spoke to Rest of World on the sidelines of a conference on Saturday.

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[–] remington@beehaw.org 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There are other TikTok alternatives worth mentioning:

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 5 days ago

Loops finally seems usable now. I tried the beta a while back and it was kinda "Meh" but it's improved significantly since. And you can browse on the website now, too. I'm not into short form videos, but credit where it's due.

Well, I do like short form videos, but I hate panning for the gems and just let my friends send me the ones that rise to top.

[–] chromodynamic@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks like Skylight is app-only, no website.

[–] PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's almost irrelevant though, since very nearly no one is using tiktok (or any other short form video site except maybe Shorts because of how it shows up while browsing regular youtube) via its website. This is Lemmy so I'm sure some nerd here has some weird reason to want to do so, but they're an astronomically tiny minority of users.

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We are on Lemmy though. It's certainly relevant to me.

I don't need it to be a popular app for others when is not for me.