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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

They will disappear

[โ€“] Goodie 35 points 1 day ago

The same as what happened when vine shut down.

Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.

[โ€“] z00s 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] HurlingDurling 4 points 19 hours ago

Nobody in Lemmy cares until they come for Lemmy I guess

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

They'll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week's end.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.

[โ€“] cosmicrookie 5 points 1 day ago

They will cease to exist

[โ€“] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] notanaltaccount 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] notanaltaccount 4 points 1 day ago

You may be right.

[โ€“] bitchkat 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"ban will not be found unconstitutional" so the ban will be upheld as constitutional.

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[โ€“] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] bitchkat 8 points 1 day ago

I don't care. Du U?

[โ€“] SomeGuy69 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

YouTube shorts are already a thing.

[โ€“] Reddfugee42 6 points 1 day ago

Once they get an algorithm that isn't absolute shit, bam we'll be good

[โ€“] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They'll have no choice but to go into the mountains and become guerilla fighters.

[โ€“] MissJinx 37 points 2 days ago
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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Switch to ig reels or yt shorts

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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!!

[โ€“] nek0d3r 4 points 1 day ago

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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

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.

[โ€“] sep 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

All social media that came after IRC should die. \s

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I don't know why everyone stopped talking about how TT it's spyware, security researchers were out of their mind few years ago

[โ€“] doingthestuff 47 points 2 days ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[โ€“] atrielienz 38 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Other platforms exist. I'm sure they'll be fine.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Who the fuck cares lmao

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels. I don't have Instagram but the YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway.

Ideally Pixelfed would win but that's very hopeful, a lot of the creators are expecting to be paid.

There's too much money to be made with the format for it to die yet.

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[โ€“] NorthWestWind 21 points 2 days ago

Find a job?

[โ€“] BigMikeInAustin 19 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Better question: Will the world rejoice in having a social media network without Americans?

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[โ€“] FmbyMF 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probably become nordVPN subscribers.

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[โ€“] EnderMB 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know why Amazon hasn't bought TikTok yet.

Lots of data, access to the Chinese market, a social media app under their wing, and an aligned work culture. Alongside the gains for ads, moving their shit to AWS, and retail gains, it seems like a better idea than throwing money into the AI fire.

[โ€“] cosmicrookie 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[โ€“] nucleative 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if there was an exceptionally well funded US startup that makes a debut before TikTok is blocked if they don't sell. TikTok has to weigh the possibility that they can't compete if they don't exist.

[โ€“] cosmicrookie 3 points 23 hours ago

I doubt it. USA is just one one country, although large. Tik Tok will do fine without it.

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