Trump said he'll unban it, if he does that'll be the one brightside of the new admin
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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Ha, eat that China! Now you need to pay millions to American oligarchs for all our user data!
USA!
so America bans tiktok for the same reason china bans Facebook
I get it, but also can you imagine a foreign country banning Amazon because "it means the US can see what you're up to and it gets to choose what deals to push at you" etc?
I mean.. Facebook for god's sake..
Being protectionist makes sense sometimes but it screws you over when other countries start banning your apps in favour of home grown alternatives..
The People's Republic of China has banned Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc). Brazil has banned Twitter and the European Union is considering it.
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Don't worry musk will buy it....
TikTok has said multiple times they will not sell. They will just exit the US market.
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Well this is going to go extremely poorly.
I am rubbing my nipples in anticipation of the FLOOD of pissed off teenagers who don't know how to human without sharing their dances now.
.........can someone explain the point of overlaying closed captions over the center of the video, but one word at a time fast paced?
I'm on the spectrum. I can process reading way, WAY faster than I can process someone just audibly speaking to me. That shit's actually helpful. I admit, it doesn't need to be in the center of the video though.
I don’t understand it either but it’s a product of how people consume the videos in their upright depression rectangles in public places with no volume I’d imagine.
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Actually captions like that can help you read faster. I've seen speed reading training things like that.
Ok, but how is it helpful for the general population?
So you can doom scroll faster... duh!
They're not the target audience.
So who is it for? This is everywhere. It's in YT shorts, Instagram posts, etc. As a style, it's getting pretty ubiquitous, and I don't understand the reason for it. At best it's annoying because if I look away for a split second, I'll miss a couple words and it won't make sense anymore.
Well. A good assumption in life is if something is popular, and you don't get it, it's not for you so don't worry.
People like weird shit.
I personally find that words on screen keeps my attention. But it annoys me if the thing I'm watching isn't worth my attention. So it's 50/50.
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Until a flood of TikTok users bankrupt them, anyways.
Not entirely sure how you'd make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money and some way to get even more big piles of money on a routine basis :/
Yeah, video hosting is notoriously expensive. It's why there's still not a real competitor to YouTube, because nobody else but Google could afford to run the platform at a net loss for the amount of time required to build a profitable user base.
If even a tiny percentage of TikTok's US user base decided to move to Loops, that may be enough traffic to not only completely disable Loops, but would probably impact the rest of the Fediverse at large, too.
Interaction with the fediverse is very limited atm
Edit: and by that I mean non-existent. It's still very early in development.
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