I’ll just leave this here.
As with all social media, as soon as grandma and grandpa get on, it all goes down hill.
TikTok was never good. Have at it.
Though, he is always free to start his own MAGA-themed video service, much like he did with Truth Social. I think the problem is — and if he doesn’t know it, he’s been advised, with crayons and hand puppets — that running a server serving video is orders of magnitude more expensive than running a server hosting a text-based social network.
i really think you are minimizing how bad this is. This is the government weaponizing social media, much like elon musk weaponized twitter. Only this time, the social media is directly owned by a fascist government regime. This is a massive massive conflict of interest which is going to 100% turn tik tok into a propaganda machine.
TikTok was run by a fascist regime: China. It’s just, most Americans are not of much interest to Beijing. Their intelligence probably wants to know what is trendy in America so it can better appeal to us and influence our elections to serve their interests, but Beijing is probably not concerned at all with you or I as individuals. But if they can get us to vote for a candidate they support by showing us the parts of that candidate that we agree with, we can be used as a tool by Beijing. Now Washington wants that power.
I don’t like it either way.
At least China builds infrastructure. At least China has near universal healthcare. China seems to actually give a shit about its people to at least some extent.
TikTok and Instagram were never good, but they provided a platform for people on the streets to provide real time updates on current events that countered the state narrative/propaganda on main stream media.
TikTok and Instagram exposed the truth about the American empire to a significant portion of the population. They want to make sure it’s all controlled state approved content, they want to eliminate our ability to reach eyes and ears.
So sure, have at the Chinese propaganda platform, but not without an alternative that allows us to reach wide audiences… And we don’t have an alternative… Not enough people are on the fediverse and the learning curve is pretty massive.
they’ve made protest illegal by classifying antifa as terrorist, now they’re coming after social media to make sure there is no outlet for protest online either. I don’t think people are making a big enough deal about this. This is extremely bad.
Eh, I’ll “have at” TikTok for being shit because historically, it has been. It’s driven by memes and trash.
That said, over the past couple years I’ve heard lots of good things. “BookTok” and other -Tok’s being communities within the service — I admit I don’t know how it is because I’ve never used it — but also, the rapid decline of YouTube has made me seriously consider getting on TikTok just to have something different. My resolve to be anti-TikTok has greatly reduced over the last couple years, as an “old guy” who does not like “social media”.
So yeah, credit where it’s due.
I’d love for the Fediverse to have a strong alternative, but again, the costs of running a video server that is anywhere close to being “widely used”…
Another interesting news! I’m blessed! Like they already do missinformation.
And it’s going to be governed by uncle Larry’s company.
You know, actually this is so grotesquely American that I’m enjoying looking at it from far away.
And it might look nice when you over there are done with the circus and then done with killing each other.
One more step towards the US becoming an NK clone. This is a good opportunity for Loops to advertise themselves as the anti-Tiktok.
No, not North Korea clone but a Nazi Germany clone.
Nazi Germany unraveled itself by attacking its neighbors. Do you think thats ever going to happen?
Canadian here, yes. Yes I absolutely think the US will attack its neighbours.
I know a different guy from history who also has seen great potential in media for propaganda.
MAGA youth recruitment and education platform
Just another day of trump being a dumb bitch.
Genuinely, how would it be any different to Twitter and Truth Social then? I’ve not used any of them so maybe I don’t understand the distinction between each
A much bigger young audience?
Short video format focus?
and that is what we call another piece of their propaganda machine
Kill it kill it!
hope he does it and it’s the thing that kills tiktok.
And Larry Ellison’s investment with it. Lol!
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Well, this is one way to kill tiktok
It didn’t kill twitter. It might be shit, but still used by hundreds of millions, and is a popular public communications outlet
So desperate to propagandize the youth.
MAGA youths !
