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Now on #upscrolled

Hey #fediverse Care to share your thoughts on #Upscrolled ? Is it yet another centralised network? #socialmedia #askfedi

https://youtu.be/36apjbNHVgg?si=2TvthtbyLUPg4gjy #Hakendran #Upscrolled

Poszła fama do zbanowanych przez TikTok USA że #Upscrolled nie ocenzuruje. No i z medium na 150tys osób w kilka dni osiągnęli 1mln profili. Ofc totalna rzeźnia, no ale tak wyglądają socialki - jak głosi obietnica założyciela, podobno Palestyńczyka z Australii - "prawie" bez cenzury. Bo jakaś moderacja jest. YouTube wywalił live streamy AlJazeera, to przeszli tam. Sporo osób z USA zakłada tam konta "na wszelki wypadek" bo techbros z bigtechów socialowych idą na rękę autorytarnemu pomarańczowemu. Fediwersowe Loops też zaliczyło wzrost, ale nie w takiej skali. Zobaczymy jak techfełdałowie rozprawią się z tym portalem. Pewnie kupią, jak urośnie. Na szczęście Fediwersum nie jest na sprzedaż :) P.S. Nie wiem kto za tym stoi, jest tylko adres pocztowy w Australii. Nie robiłem śledztwa.

The-14 on UpScrolled. Join us there! Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/upscrolled/id6746533451 Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.upscrolled.app Check out my profile: https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/488d958f-83d2-4e50-8232-e9f63ac771c1/ #The14 #The14Media #UpScrolled

The-14 on UpScrolled. Join us there! Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/upscrolled/id6746533451 Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.upscrolled.app Check out my profile: https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/488d958f-83d2-4e50-8232-e9f63ac771c1/ #The14 #The14Media #UpScrolled

The-14 on UpScrolled. Join us there! Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/upscrolled/id6746533451 Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.upscrolled.app Check out my profile: https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/488d958f-83d2-4e50-8232-e9f63ac771c1/ #The14 #The14Media #UpScrolled

TikTok getting MAGA spawns new social media services. UpScrolled is apparently built from scratch as a centralized platform, not based on ActivityPub or ATProto. They explicitly state that current decentralized protocols don't deliver what they need for a video-forward app, whatever that means. It's run by Palestinian-Australian developer Issam Hijazi with support from the Tech for Palestine incubator, launched in June 2025. Positioned as an Instagram and TikTok alternative without shadowbanning, with chronological feeds. UpScrolled saw a massive surge after TikTok's US ownership restructure in January 2026, when Oracle and other US investors took controlling stake while ByteDance retained only 19.9%. Some users accused TikTok of censoring posts critical of ICE under the new ownership, which drove people to alternatives. Monnett is also built from scratch, centralized, with no federation. Run by Monnet Social SA based in Luxembourg, founded in 2024 by a team of European technologists and activists. It's their answer to surveillance capitalism, GDPR-compliant, hosted in Germany, with user-controlled algorithm sliders and no psychological profiling. Basically the European sovereignty play. W is the newest one, announced at Davos just days ago. Another centralized platform built from scratch, run by Anna Zeiter, former eBay chief privacy officer. It's legally a subsidiary of We Don't Have Time, a Swedish climate activist organization backed by IKEA, Volvo, Unilever, WWF, and Salesforce. The advisory board includes former German Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler and Club of Rome chair Sandrine Dixson-Declève. Requires identity verification with photo and ID to combat bots. European-hosted data only. The name of W supposedly stands for "We" with two hidden V's for "Values" and "Verified" - and they cheerfully admit that W coming before X in the alphabet is "a welcome coincidence". Beta in February, public launch late 2026. Zeiter said the platform would already count as a success if "political Brussels" posts on W instead of X. So all three are new walled gardens with different policies and ownership, but none contribute to the Fediverse, ActivityPub or ATProto.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Makes me want to shout, "Hey, look here, we're here!". But nobody listens. Sources: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/new-european-x-alternative-backed-by-climate-activists https://www.wionews.com/technology/europeans-plan-to-launch-w-their-own-social-media-platform-to-rival-elon-musk-s-x-1769165110324 https://monnett.social/faq/ https://80.lv/articles/european-politicians-unveil-w-an-upcoming-twitter-x-alternative https://updates.techforpalestine.org/upscrolled-is-live-the-instagram-alternative-thats-actually-on-your-side/ #SocialMedia #W #UpScrolled #Monnett #Centralized #TikTok