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Universal Music says that it will pull its song catalog from TikTok tomorrow at midnight, as the companies are unable to reach a deal on rights. Huge implications. (twitter.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Controversial take but...

Yes, tiktok has several serious glaring issues as a platform but being such an absolutely huge platform, it has been (for a while now) much more than teen dance app. It's a platform that under represented and minority groups have found an audience to share their voice. The are legit journalists, artists, celebrities, organizations, dank memers, etc using the platform for good.

Obv it would be great if it wasn't all on tiktok (isn't there a federated equivalent?) but seeing people rejoice wherever something bad happens to the platform just lacks... nuance I guess. I know it's hard to compare social media platforms, but from what I can tell it's one of the less controlling, censor heavy platforms. And it's not owned by Elon Musk lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

definitely. it's a uniquely bad and insidious platform, but at the same time there's still good and important content on there you'd never see anywhere else. people are too quick to dismiss it because they haven't tried to tailor the algorithm to what they want properly and assume it's all shitty dance videos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah the algorithm imo is a blessing and a curse. You can find your niche and get really good content relevant to you that's not the shitty dance videos. But of course their algorithm is so great that it keeps you in that bubble and keeps you watching for too long.

And if we compare to YouTube shorts... I've found that place to be a hell hole. Facebook videos, Snapchat, all the other platforms have less people and a worse algorithm that pushes those kinds of annoying dance videos or (YouTube especially) right wing, misogynist, crap that I downvote, report, and select "don't recommend" dozens of times without any change.

Anyways 😅 rant over. We should all get off the Internet more and touch grass tbf

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

UM is almost the sole reason why copyright claims on youtube are such a hellscape, so I'll gladly enjoy seeing them fight TikTok on this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I know eh?

Huge implications

What, for brain-dead teenagers?

Boo-fuckin-hoo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good, Tiktok has tiktokified enough brains by now.

Let the brains restore and get used to longer form content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah!

swipes through Lemmy shitposts for the next three hours as my last two brain cells cry out in pain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know, i know...getting rid of tiktok isn't going to rid us of the consequences.

But TikTok definitely seemed to be a whole step on the ladder, so it should have some result i would think.

In a perfect world the internet would become just a tool instead of a species wide addiction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe the tool is the addiction. Or maybe I'm just addicted to tools.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand. Isn't TikTok a video making platform? What catalogue...?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TikTok was originally an app called Musically where people would lip-sync over songs. Music was/is the core of the app so copyrighting songs would cut down the majority of their content.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are estimates of this impacting between a few hundred million to a billion videos...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ha Ha!

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