TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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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.

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.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

        • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

            • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 months ago

              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.

                • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  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.