They'll have no choice but to go into the mountains and become guerilla fighters.
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.
There are no 'leaders' in the US offices of tik toc
A few more middle men get filthy rich.
Oh no! Anyway...
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.
As a proud patriot I only want my data sold to American big business interests! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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.
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.
I don't know why everyone stopped talking about how TT it's spyware, security researchers were out of their mind few years 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!
All social media that came after IRC should die. \s
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
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.
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.
Who the fuck cares lmao
YouTube shorts are already a thing.
Once they get an algorithm that isn't absolute shit, bam we'll be good
Find a job?
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.
YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway
Hey that's not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.
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.
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.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who cares. Imagine what will happen to those freed from this mental prison
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.
A post so inaccurate it belongs on tic toc.
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.
Switch to ig reels or yt shorts
They'll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week's end.
Think of all the Russian jobs spreading misinformation on Tik Tok that will be lost!
Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.
They’ll just move on to the next available platform.
I don't care. Du U?
Back to Vine.
Vine had less Brain rot
I support retuning to vine.
They will have to work
They will disappear
They will cease to exist
I imagine all the clocks in their houses will just stop. Stop tick. Stop tock.
Albeit I don't know what the duck TikTok is. Just guessing.
In case you're serious, a video-centric social media. It focuses on short vertical videos. Naturally, they're generally too short to have much useful information, so it's mostly dumb addictive content, or straight up misinformation. It's meant to feel like you're not wasting time while you definitely are. "I am not spending 15 minutes to watch a normal video, I just watched a few (maybe 50) short (around 1 minute) videos."
It's like YouTube shorts.
I'm excited to find out!
They'll move to another platform
Deported.
Start using a VPN..
Damn crazy that you're in favor of regulating porn but are also telling people to use a VPN.
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
Finally get involved in politics?
Darkweb!
Government censorship will cause TikTok's services in the US to shut down, which will result in most users moving to another social media platform.
I think most people already use multiple platforms, so the only difference will be the time they put into their new main social media.
What usa tik tok creators?
Nothing. The law is unconstitutional.
How is the law unconstitutional?
I could try to summarize it, but if you just do a web search for EFF and TikTok, you will come across a good explanation.
Of course we don't know how the courts will rule. My belief is that the odds are in favor of TikTok and of TikTok users, but we'll have to wait and find out.
