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And they're already kissing Trump's ass

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Do you want to help a company that kisses Trump's asshole or do you want to find the next free app that does the same thing as TikTok?

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.

trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

And now, this adds two layers:

  1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.

  2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That second paragraph is just vile. Donny brought this ban into motion and now they say he will save them?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Oh no! Anyway…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I’ve never used it. I was only exposed to second hand smoke.

It’s strange for me to avoid a platform like this. Back in the early days I would sign up for anything.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (14 children)

I know bad for democracy and everything but

This app has done nothing positive for my life, arguably began my social media addiction, filled my brain with negative content at the height of COVID and severely impacted my mental health

I don't think governments should ban platforns. But do I think TikTok should have ever existed? No

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

And yet most of it's users are either to stupid or addicted to see the issue and just switch to RedNote, no questions asked. Which in turn nullifies the ban altogether.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good, can't be happier for this!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (9 children)

What I find mad is that people are seriously depressed about this on /r/Tiktok. Yeah sure, I understand small creators now having a tough time having their business disappearing, but people are literally saying that TikTok was their only source of information and that they don't know what to do now??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Given the amount of nonsense that was on tiktok they'll probably be more informed now.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

So the ban is reaching exactly the people it was set out to reach. Good.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I can't WAIT for Trump to SAVE this CHYNESE APP!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

so which was the kicker that brought the swearing-in indoors:

a) afraid of riots because of tiktok ban.

b) afraid of his malformed 'shroom freezing to his diaper in the cold.

c) afraid of getting another piercing.

d) afraid of dreadfully pathetic crowds at the mall and in photographs he can't lie about after last time.

e) all of the above.

f) all of the above, and also.....

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Surreal watching the rest of the internet freaking out. Meanwhile we are just sitting here on our own platforms doing our own things.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.

Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.

I guess my attention span isn't short enough for that type of sites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't say that I don't see the appeal of it. I would probably get sucked right in if I gave it a shot. It's a consciouss decision on my part to simply not do that. I don't not-consume short-form media because I'm better than the people who do, I prohibit it from myself.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

TikTok has tons of issues but this bugs me so much. There are many examples of people sharing their creativity, their skill, their knowledge, their passion to the world on tiktok and it's so good at exposing you to it if you are interested in seeing all kinds of people expressing themselves.

Since when does the value of content correlate directly with the amount of time it consumes?

is brevity no longer the soul of wit??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If they want to share all of that, what hinders them to start an actual blog?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would scroll a bit after someone linked me a video. Content was fun, but after like 3 minutes, I could feel something wrong in my brain. Like just the nonstop influx of content with no breaks. You might think one video was faked, but you didn't have enough time to contemplate it before another shows up in its place.

I have some friends who spend hours on it. I can't imagine deciding to participate in that for so long.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Short video formats on all platforms make me very quickly feel like I'm going crazy. Just one voice after another, trying to cram whatever they have to say into your ears, or one joke taken out of context, or one simplistic moral, or absurdist humor that wouldn't hold up for longer than a few seconds. My partner watches endless "reels" on Facebook, and that hurried talking they all do, with all those cuts to make sure there's no gap between words, makes me fell very weird and agitated. It's like everyone has the same voice. And then it keeps looping. I waste far too much time on Lemmy but the short video stuff seems like another level of brain melt.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Tiktok ban is a good opportunity to educate the common folk on the benefits of federation

Although I am not sure if short video format addicts' needs can be fixed with this elegant solution but it definitely works well enough as reddit and twitter replacement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I don't see how this has anything to do with federated platforms. I'd argue that watching Loops is just as bad for one's mental health than TikTok is.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's called Instagram or YouTube Shorts. Same thing...TikTok offered nothing new. And I'm here, but all I see on Lemmy are the same posts 3-4 times, predictable pearl clutching reactions to everything, and very limited news coverage with a proclivity for posting random, fringe sources

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago

I don't respect corporate trash... But if it works for you, great!

Make sure to have location sharing enabled;)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Video hosting is too expensive for a platform that's not run by a big company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Shit ain't free!

But text is cheap enough to make text base federated social media a thing. So freedom oriented plebs have a refuge.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Trump isn't going to save them. He's setting it up so one of us cronies will get it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is a nice asset why shouldnt an American oligarch own it though

Democracy, free market, and capitalism 🤡

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even Marvel Snap is down because it's a subsidiary lmao

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago
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