- Gerudo ( @Gerudo@lemm.ee ) 62•5 days ago
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.
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) 1•2 days ago
A few more middle men get filthy rich.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 62•5 days ago
They’ll have no choice but to go into the mountains and become guerilla fighters.
- Remy Rose ( @MxRemy@lemmy.one ) English37•5 days ago
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!!
- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 31•5 days ago
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.
- nothacking ( @nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ) 9•5 days ago
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?
- Shyfer ( @Shyfer@ttrpg.network ) 6•4 days ago
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.
- Hazzia ( @Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•4 days 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.
- Hanrahan ( @hanrahan@slrpnk.net ) English8•4 days ago
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.
- ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English1•4 days ago
Send them butthole pics in the mail
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 3•4 days 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.
- 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 ( @maniel@sopuli.xyz ) 9•5 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
- gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 1•4 days ago
All social media that came after IRC should die. \s
- Anarki_ ( @Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•4 days ago
They’ll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week’s end.
- xep ( @xep@fedia.io ) 7•3 days ago
Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 2•3 days ago
They will disappear
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 22•5 days ago
Who the fuck cares lmao
- Max-P ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 16•5 days ago
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.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 8•5 days ago
YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway
Hey that’s not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•5 days ago
Or:
Today I will answer all your most important questions. For example, the answer to eternal happiness is… more in part 2!
- Chozo ( @Chozo@fedia.io ) 4•5 days ago
Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels.
Likely YouTube. While neither are great, between Google and Meta, Google’s got the better reputation. YouTube also has a larger audience, because it includes a ton of users who wouldn’t fall under traditional social media usage. Reels might be used as a periphery platform to drive more people to their main channel on YouTube.
Any TikTok creator who moves to Instagram full-time is either shooting themselves in the foot, or got a good contract from Meta.
- Max-P ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 5•5 days ago
I do like the YouTube integration. A good chunk of them have a link to a main long form video which is nice when you don’t want to watch a video in 50 parts. You can scroll and be like, that’s a cool project let me watch the full 30 mins video.
- rand_alpha19 ( @rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com ) 1•5 days ago
Are YouTube shorts still 1 minute maximum? Until that changes, I don’t think they’ll be a viable replacement since content longer than a minute seems to be the sweet spot for a sizeable amount of Tiktok’s user base. Especially when it comes to informative or political content.
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•5 days ago
YouTube also supports longer videos outside of shorts. And they don’t even have to be in portrait mode. /j
- Clot ( @clot27@lemm.ee ) English14•4 days ago
Switch to ig reels or yt shorts
- geography082 ( @geography082@lemm.ee ) 11•5 days ago
They will have to work
- Jimmybander ( @card797@champserver.net ) 8•4 days ago
I’m excited to find out!
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) 8•5 days ago
They’ll just move on to the next available platform.
- FalseMyrmidon ( @FalseMyrmidon@kbin.run ) 3•5 days ago
They’ll move to another platform
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 2•4 days ago
They’ll live happily ever after in their TikTok houses.
- treadful ( @treadful@lemmy.zip ) English2•5 days ago
Finally get involved in politics?