There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    Republicans obviously take majority responsibility for this turd of a deal and the corrupt shifting of TikTok ownership to Trump’s buddies. But it can’t be overstated what an own-goal supporting this whole dumb thing was for Democrats, who not only helped Trump’s friends steal partial ownership of TikTok, they saber-rattled over a ban during an election season where they desperately needed young people to vote.

    As I’ve spent years arguing, if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives.

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That’s what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.

    Guess we’ll see.

  • BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3 months

    Maybe this shitslurry of a deal will stain the platform with enough GOP stink that even the most brainrotted kids will leave it behind for less foul smelling alternatives

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3 months

      They won’t, they’re addicted (I say this as a sporadic TT user). Look at how shit FB has gotten, yet people still hang around. Tiktok’s algo is 100x more addictive.

      The only positive for TT for me personally was that the bot problem wasn’t as bad on it compared to other social media. I bet that will change pretty quickly.

      • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
        3 months

        Xitter had a very sharp worsening as a platform, and yet, somehow, still remains very relevant.

        • BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3 months

          Didn’t over half the real users leave? Feels like it’s basically a handful of nazis, many nazi bots, and a few media people for businesses.

          • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
            3 months

            I have no idea how it feels there or what the real or honest user percentage is like. Subjectively occasionally I still see xitter. Maybe my impression of importance and use as a source for press/media is outdated.

            Still, it seems to remain very relevant in some areas and circles, like vtubing, Japan, Ukraine, and Russia.

            I assume it’s the same for other areas. The recent reporting about artist outcry and leaving xitter because of their AI remixing is another indication that is still significantly popular, apparently.

            Whether it’s 50% bots or not - if we assume the other half to be real and honest users that’s still a lot and relevant.

    • Cybersteel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      The younguns skew right nowadays due to podcasters like Tate and Rogan.

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.orgdeleted by creator
    3 months

    Good, because fuck that platform and its parasitic hold on society.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.

      It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
        3 months

        Having even more propaganda control is the true problem.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.

    I’m so tired of this blatant corruption.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Of course it is a shitty and shady deal. What did you expect from a government-backed deal?

  • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
    3 months

    So will Americans have their own great firewalled tiktok then? Wondering about how content will be shared between the US and the rest of the Anglosphere

  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    Tiktok US deal; this is just for the US users. Tiktok global doesn’t change.

    Essentially the US just siloed all the US users together and cut them off from the rest of the world and they’re about to find out just how little of the US were on Tiktok.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Ellison needs to be thrown in prison when this nightmare comes to an end