It is difficult to eliminate Venezuela from one’s heart. Every brother and sister who leaves dreams of coming back, because for us there is nothing like our homeland…

Oh yeah, I kinda messed up the two. I was referring to Pixelfed, not loops, but I am too lazy to edit the comment.

Huh, now I kinda get it. Thanks.

Isn’t Alibaba the same shit?

Then why is so famous around the globe? 😭

Well, you see, is kinda hard to explain to someone that oy use Facebook and TikTok what Tor even is, so…

1. Yes, they are official TikToks apps
2. I quit using Playstore apps a long time ago, F-Droid is my main source of apps. I just went to the list of successes of the Playstore to see if loops, the Fediverse TikTok alternative that just dropped, was on the list.

No. To be frank, it is a quick and superficial comparison trying to take as a reference countries with a “similar” ideological alignment to Venezuela.

Although that too is questionable, because, from what I have researched, Maduro’s government is only “socialist” in name.

It is very weird. The normal thing here is to throw shit at the government, at least at street level. I have heard that in social networks they are much tougher, I just have not experienced it because I no longer use the Mainstream social networks. There are blockades and restrictions, but they are punctual rather than general.

It seems to me they know that if they were to go full North Korea or China, it would be counterproductive for them, since people are already fed up. China is restrictive, but at least it is prosperous in its own way; and North Korea has decades of propaganda educating its population. Here there is neither.

Is not north Korea nor China, I can assure you that.

Oh yeah, I know why lol

You are the third person from a different third country to mention Temu. What on earth is so good about Temu? Legit question 😭

Yeah, is political. We can enter twitter (not that I care) and other sites.

Well, you know, no one hears about VPNs in school, so…

Superficially, maybe. But not in depth, like knowing what a VPN actually does and such.

Yeah, but the other two… (And fucking TikTok there twice! TWICE!)

Yes, is for old phones and such. A mutual told me the main app is bad optimized, and a lot of smartphone here are very VERY old. Mine have like 5 years or so, I think that’s like 5 decades in more “develop” countries.

Third-world shenanigans, you know.

Motherfucker is so damn alone, sad and boring they created a Lemmy account 27 minutes ago just to bait people.

Get a life, eat a pizza or something and fuck off.