TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.
The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.
the fediverse has twitter instagram and tiktok analogues, which could theoretically offer these things (which i think is a normie problem, not just a young people problem)
i think they’d appreciate a freer platform for that since they seem to be leaving tiktok in droves.
Yeah, they theoretically could, but even getting reddit users moving over to the fediverse has been a challenge and reddit type social is basically an old school forum with a different UI.
When it comes to tiktok, twitter, Instagram type social media I think the main draw is getting the most views possible and going viral and getting followers, which leads to them wanting to be where all the famous people are and all the companies are.
It’ll appeal to those who want to escape corporatized sites, but I don’t think it’ll appeal to core users, since they want that large audience and followers. That they would use those sites to begin with that had privacy red flags makes it a big challenge, since they are willing to give that up in exchange for attention.
we do have to collectively figure it out somehow though. a lot of current society’s problems trace back to social media.
and well, that responsibility is on our kinda people right now.
Think we’ve learned most people are easily impressionable or hateful or both with how easily they get swept up in things that disturb us, and its unfortunately a minority that aren’t despite being no more privileged, educated, or smarter than peers.
I guess its kind of like gambling as an example where no matter how much people try and dissuade others from falling into it their attempts fall on deaf ears to the majority actions. And its not that people who don’t fall into it are smarter.
Sometimes the issue is that the vast collective is just already set on their own course of action, and we’re just taken along for the ride due to their vast numbers and drowned out.
if people are impressionable, they can be swayed. it just feels immovable because it takes time, but culture can and does change.
someone else had to convince them the landscape we are in was worth investing into, it was just not with words but fame, dopamine and a bit of cash. we could probably make freedom from corporations more compelling, because it is quite compelling.
Its easier to sway people in the worse direction with more perceived benefits than the more difficult or less appealing ideologically better option.
the ideologically better option has reasons to be better. they are just longer term reasons that have to be sold and explored to it’s potential within our constraints. we have to show it’s good.
the fediverse itself is an experiment in this, and i say we are growing a nice community over here that could eventually bring more people in, or at least shift perception and use of the internet in a healthier direction. not unlike some of our predecessors.
I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.
For the majority, negatives can be things they don’t even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.
I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.
and like linux, we can figure those shortcomings out and slowly figure out how to solve them.
its ok for small comms to remain small, but something can bring the mainstream to better options, much like something brought them to the current mainstream over other niche and mainstream options in the first place.
there’s budding discussion about this on asklemmy atm.