Back to Vine.
The same as what happened when vine shut down.
Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.
Nobody in Lemmy cares until they come for Lemmy I guess
If you base your livelihood on a platform owned by a private company, you’re not really justified if you complain about it being changed or blocked.
Lemmy users aren’t making money from it, so your argument is irrelevant.
Um, actually that’s one perk of federation. It’s much harder to take down networks that are run on dozens or hundreds of servers across the globe… In other words, we already solved this problem, at least in large part.
There won’t be a ban. TikTok will probably end up making a U.S. only version that will satisfy congress.
The data will be sold to a 3rd party broker who will then keep sending it to China, so nothing will change in the end.
A few more middle men get filthy rich.
You and your correct predictions… smdh
I don’t think this is correct.
They wont reveal their code and leaders in the US are too uncomfortable. With a conservative court, a ban will be not found unconstitutional.
The revealed their code to a US company already: Oracle.
They just don’t like that the youth use it to see what’s happening in other parts of the world, like Palestine. They want to be able to keep the US populace within their propaganda bubble, in the state we were in when we didn’t know about things like the Irgun or The Great March of Return.
You may be right.
There are no ‘leaders’ in the US offices of tik toc
They’ll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week’s end.
They’ll have no choice but to go into the mountains and become guerilla fighters.
Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.
They will disappear
I’m usually all for fediverse folks shitting on big corporate social media platforms, they definitely all deserve it. But unless I’m mistaken, and I very well might be, TT seems like it gets wayyyy more vitriol than the other big bads. Hopefully that’s not for “old man yells at cloud” type reasons.
Anyway, definitely looking forward to Loops when it’s ready!!
It gets more hate because it’s owned by a Chinese company that more than likely shares data with the CCP. I assume you live in a western nation, so it’s basically the result of propaganda. Perhaps it’s warranted, perhaps not, but that’s why.
It’s ironic because everyone flips out that China is vacuuming up information, as if the US government isn’t doing the same thing. If you think the US govt snoops that data only to keep you safe, I have a bridge to sell you.
Guess the issue is that us big bads are blocked in china. So while ccp can leverage social media to monitor western countries. Western goverments can not leverage western social media to do the same in china.
Considering our data is being bought and sold by US companies to whoever I don’t think this is going to help with that. Tbh, I’m more scared of the US having our data than China. The US can use it to find people seeking abortions, or to track protestors trying to get human rights, or things like that. Not China. I’d rather they make a general law to preserve privacy, but this half-assed measure to preserve US monopolies.
I think the reason is less about “i, an individual, am getting my data harvested” (though certainly still a factor) byt more because China is still very much considered an enemy of the US, and they are not only harvesting americans data in a very invasive way - as in, recording pretty much everything you do on your phone, not just in the app - but an adversarial government now has access to all of that. Additionally, because the chinese “free market” has been effectively neutered in recent years, high chance that the CCP is able to influence TikTok’s algorithm to affect what people see and push propaganda. People should be concerned about it in the same way people should be concerned about russian bot farm, but more so, because there isn’t an audience of millions feeding russian bot farms their personal information.
As an Australian I could not care wjaty the CCP knows about me, happy to send them as many butthole or dick pics photos as they want.
What concerns me is the invasiness of my own national government and its asshole FiveEyes conspirators. They can take my liberty. Those bastards I trust not one inch.
Send them butthole pics in the mail
As a proud patriot I only want my data sold to American big business interests! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It gets more hate because it is actually worse. They try to exploit the phone as much as possible even more so than the American social media spyware companies. There was a security researcher redditor post somewhere I forgot what it was, but they basically went over how much more shit tik tok was able to harvest.
Yeah, I’m much more worried about someone in my country spying on me then China, like what are they gonna do from the other side of the world?
Arrest you for protesting a genocide or trying to get an abortion? No, sorry, that’s something people in the US have to worry about when their government has their data, not China.
I’m with you, it’s kind of annoying to see just how much people seethe over a platform. It looks exactly like what redditors did with IG, or TT, or emojis. I understand people’s frustrations with TT, but as someone who’s made content for both TT and YT shorts, engagement for small guys absolutely sucks on shorts and when TT is banned, there’s basically no real alternative. Not only that, but I’m also very concerned about the precedent that’s set by effectively censoring parts of the internet for Americans.
That being said I am also super pumped for Loops, I hope there’s more updates soon because I’ve been keeping an eye on that for a while!
I don’t know why everyone stopped talking about how TT it’s spyware, security researchers were out of their mind few years ago
All social media that came after IRC should die. \s
YouTube shorts are already a thing.
Once they get an algorithm that isn’t absolute shit, bam we’ll be good
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who cares. Imagine what will happen to those freed from this mental prison
Oh no! Anyway…
Other platforms exist. I’m sure they’ll be fine.
I was under the impression that the TT creator fund was very minimal anyway. Or at least it was gutted recently and used to be somewhat okay.
A lot of people exclusively use TT for business, via the TT store, which isn’t implemented in other platforms (many of which users don’t trust). They’ll have a rough go of it if they don’t diversify.
Then those people are idiots.
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I thought they mostly made money through sponsorships rather than direct payments.
They often do. Merchandise too, if they are big.
Switch to ig reels or yt shorts
Who the fuck cares lmao
the person who asked the question, obviously
