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Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store (en.royanews.tv)
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Google Play has delisted UpScrolled, the "censorship-resistant" social media app founded by Issam Hijazi, following its rapid growth to over 2.5 million users and its brief stint as a top-ranked alternative to TikTok.

While the app remains available for existing users, Google has not provided a specific reason for the removal; UpScrolled's team confirmed they are working with the Play Store for reinstatement while maintaining their commitment to unfiltered content.

This development follows the app's rapid ascent in popularity, particularly amid concerns over content moderation on competing platforms like TikTok.

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[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

Ecosia is OK, but if you use Vivaldi (I'm guessing it's Chromium) you will give power to Google. If we want to fight Google, there are three main areas.

1 - The most important is search (fortunately they suck and it's easy to change).

2 - The second most important is Chromium (there is only one alternative, Firefox - I don't count Safari because it's for Apple devices). Firefox has Manifest V2; if we lose this, we lose great power.

3 - The third most important is YouTube. I think this is the hardest one because maintaining a video-sharing platform is very expensive, and it's not something that can live just with donations.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

YouTube has to be replaced with a decentralized torrent-like based system where every user shares the load with what they are watching.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

this could be great for popular content

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It would be a great solution for most media only because computers are so fast and have excellent connections nowadays. I think if everyone just hosts their own content through a system like this we can preserve even niche content.

Obviously there would be some serious technical hurdles such as search. It wouldn't be a magic bullet, but a good compromise to the top-down Monopoly we have now.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

This is very good idea but we'd need domains for that

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