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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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i’m both satisfied with my decision to leave mainstream social media and i’d like the landscape to be better.