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What do you think of "UpScrolled? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by pir8t0x@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] adb@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

Haven’t spent too much time on it but I’ve seen absolutely no porn on it and on the only “gory” stuff I’ve seen on it is related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. I suppose hasbara trolls could add shitty content to it, I’d figure it’s much more likely that they give it a bad reputation by spreading lies on other social media.

Ultimately I don’t really trust it too much, although I deem it miles more trustworthy than established mainstream social media. Yet it remains a privately owned for profit social media that already plans to serve ads (says so on their faq)and as such, seems doomed to be enshittified at some point.

[–] pir8t0x@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

I suppose hasbara trolls could add shitty content to it, I’d figure it’s much more likely that they give it a bad reputation by spreading lies on other social media.

Ohh, that would make so much more sense! And yeah, I think this will get enshittified too