And they’re already kissing Trump’s ass

  • mesa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    Surreal watching the rest of the internet freaking out. Meanwhile we are just sitting here on our own platforms doing our own things.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.

      Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.

      I guess my attention span isn’t short enough for that type of sites.

  • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    What I find mad is that people are seriously depressed about this on /r/Tiktok. Yeah sure, I understand small creators now having a tough time having their business disappearing, but people are literally saying that TikTok was their only source of information and that they don’t know what to do now??

    • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Tik tok had some amazing news sources. I’d say the Washington Post on there was pretty good, they actually reported on the bullshit going on at the paper as well. There was a lot of great sources on the app. I’ll say that tiktok is the only place you’ll see news on Palestine not from the pov of Israel.

      • cocomutative_diagram@infosec.pubEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        I am only on mastodon and lemmy, yet I have only seen things from pro-palestan standpoint.

        Believe it or not, building a ethical platform will encourage ethical news on there. Unethical platform might sometimes push ethical news, but eventually will only prioritize its own agenda.

  • drthunder@midwest.socialEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I wish people knew that TikTok being banned was more about it not suppressing posts about Palestine than national security or whatever else they say. Antony Blinken and Mitt Romney outright said last year it was about stopping people from seeing the truth about Israel committing genocide. If the government actually cared about foreign influence operations they’d regulate data privacy and social media algorithms in some way (idk how, but I’m sure you could) but they obviously won’t because US companies manipulating people and stealing their data is totally fine.