They’ll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week’s end.
Nobody in Lemmy cares until they come for Lemmy I guess
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.
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.
They’ll have no choice but to go into the mountains and become guerilla fighters.
Switch to ig reels or yt shorts
Probably become nordVPN subscribers.
I was going to ask this… doesn’t vpn work? Is VPN being bamed too?
I don’t know the specifics behind it, but even if VPN does work, or accessing TT through a web app instead of an app, that’s still 1-2 hurdles for the average user to jump through for their fix.
Some people will just not bother and then peace out to instagram reels or YT shorts or just drop off that kind of social media.
It fully depends on how many users are “savvy” enough to navigate those hurdles and how badly they want to navigate those hurdles.
In my experience when you’re working with a dedicated user base and you make a significant change, you can expect to lose around half your audience. Barriers to entry are probably going to increase that number, but obviously this is anecdotal evidence for future events.
Who the fuck cares lmao
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.
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
A few more middle men get filthy rich.
Better question: Will the world rejoice in having a social media network without Americans?
It’s already banned in Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Taiwan, Denmark, European Union, France, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Somalia, and United Kingdom.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/these-countries-have-already-banned-tiktok
That’s very inaccurate information.
It’s basically only the government officials who can’t have the app installed on their phones, for security reasons.
That’s it.
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
The same as what happened when vine shut down.
Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.
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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Find a job?
Oh no! Anyway…
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.
Because its not for sale
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.
I doubt it. USA is just one one country, although large. Tik Tok will do fine without it.
Everything is for sale when you are a $1T+ company. That’s why Amazon has the likes of Blink, Ring, Alexa, Anthropic, etc.
Not when there are national politics involved
That’s…exactly why you would get involved?
TikTok might lose out on revenue. Why not sell your US arm for lots of money?
This is literally one of the most widely talked-about options regarding the ban of TikTok…
They refused to entertain offers. 1T dollars seems mighty, but TikTok is a multi-year if not multi-decade data collection hub. That data is on the youth of America and their trajectories.
That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.
That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.
that’s why their banning it; they can’t control it in the way they want
