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[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How does this work for countries outside of the US? Will Canadian and European TikTok get the propaganda too or will the US version be self contained?

[–] colforge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read that US users will have to download a whole new app so I’m guessing anyone outside the US that keeps the current one won’t be affected.

So like the tiktok China has. It's like we are running full speed trying to become NK

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[–] Hector@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It will be a shadow of his former self being run by these hacks. There are two greedy and short-sighted to run a growing platform.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't underestimate the stupidity and calcification of tiktok users, they'll just stick around having never heard of the sale. They won't even question why their feed is now a nonstop loop of Kirk clips.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TikTok? I haven't even seen a pendulum clock in decades.

[–] jdf038@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

All these kids and their tikkity toks and instant grams

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guess is only ~15% of people using TikTok will quit, because of this.

Drugs are bad kids, m'kay?

[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@sp3ctr4l @vegeta look how many people still use Twitter.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I literally only ever had a twitter account... when Elon announced he was buying it, and I created that account soley in order to scream at him untill I was banned, probably by him personally.

All these short form, highly algorithmically manipulated communication platforms have given everyone brainrot, ruined their attention spans, made everyone angry stupid and tribal, and spread astounding amounts of mis and disinformation.

It was all downhill after Facebook introduced Farmville, and fully realized that every aspect of the human psyche can be gamified and manipulated.

If you do not realize that persistent exposure to a dopamine delivery device has fucked up nearly everyone on a fundamental level, and has created addiction/withdrawal behaviors in a large subset of those people, particularly if they've been exposed since a young age, you are either an addict in denial yourself, or you have not read enough of the studies on this.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When Tiktok was taken offline for 24 hours and it's users noted that it "came back wrong" with suggestions for certain things missing for American users, we should've listened.

It already started.

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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't wait to see zoomers burn down the Whitehouse

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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its already turning into Ziotok

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that z as in Zionism or gen-z or ruzzia? Or a little bit of all

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Trump insiders claim

Suuuuuuure. I'll believe it when I...actually probably never.

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