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.

  • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • benny@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      Vivaldi also kept Manifest V2, so old extensions do keep working there. They also have a mastodon server, and email/calendar/feeds, so they offer more out of the box than Firefox. Lots of projects built on other open source projects like Chromium and KDE do offer legitimate alternatives.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

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

        • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          55 minutes ago

          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.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      For #3, how much would it actually cost to host a medium sized YouTube channel on peertube? I top off my prepaid hosting costs every few years to cover my website’s remarkably high traffic (just me and a few other people :P). Consequently I have no idea how much it would cost to self host a site with actual visitors and video content.

      • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        19 minutes ago

        I guess too much because think like you have 1000 videos each video is ~500 mb (also you’ll need to store 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p versions) let’s say 1 GB storage for each video, total storage need: 1TB just for one channel it’s ok but there would be like 10k channel at least

        1 TB * 10000 = 20 TB * 500 = 500 hard disk with 20 TB

        let’s say each one is $350 total $175,000 (and this is hard disk I thing you’re not going to use hard disks)

        (and this is just storage I don’t know about traffic costs)