I never checked it out but the biggest issue for social media is always content. Does Loops have a lot/good content or is it dead?

I do recommend and use Mastodon. I even have a link to my Mastodon profile in my Lemmy Bio. I recommend other parts of the Fediverse as well, Firefish, Sharkey, Misskey, Iceshrimp, Mbin, WriteFreely, PeerTube, Owncast, Pixelfed, Loops, Castopod and others are all great platforms.

I think their eluding to the federated/decentralized equivalent. There's little difference in switching sides to another state moderated app xD

my question is why do you even need a time-sucking and addictive short video app?

Youtube shorts? Idk, that's the only short-form video content I partake in.

Uh, the X is probably in reference to Musk-Twitter.

Well as for point 1, there is, at most, equal as much call for violence in the phrase "Free Palestine" as in "Liberate Hong Kong", so those are actually decent comparisons of calls to action. Except really, as Hong Kong is not in open war with China, there really is no need for violence. China just has to give up its false claim to it. That's even more true with Taiwanese Independence. That requires no violence at all. China is the source of the threatened violence in that case, and they simply need to recognize and respect Taiwan's Independence from them.

As for your point number 2, I assume this is in reference to Tiananmen Square? First of all, you need to look up the definition of libel. "Remember Tiananmen Square 1989" does not make any claims of fact, true or not, so there is no way that that statement itself is libel. Second, the massacre that occurred on June 4th 1989 is a fact, and you can kiss my ass if you are claiming otherwise. True statements, btw, are also no libelous.

And as for point 3, really? I'm racist to repeat a childish meme about an authoritarian leader that his own Chinese citizens came up with? That shit started on the Chinese internet, my guy, not in the west. You have got an uphill battle if you want to claim that the Chinese people are racist against Chinese people. Dumbass.

Lol. Are you trying to be serious? Because this comment is funny as hell.

nor did it have a right-wing bias

looks at how they promote AfD influencers in Germany, and how they promoted targeted videos to try to elect a neo-nazi in Romania

It doesn't have what?

Well arguably it has whatever-destabilizes-the-country-the-most bias, but for most of the western world this mostly means they have a pro local fascists bias.

Way to cherry pick (and imply Asian racism about a meme started by the Chinese). Regardless, censorship is censorship.

Or if you apply for a visa!

I would imagine you would also want to avoid getting on their list if you ever wanted to travel to there as a tourist.

I'm not following the logic, do they censor content differently based on the country of the account holder??

I'm not recommending bsky, I'm just done fighting it if that's where the normies want to go.