Didn’t know where to share this.
I don’t use tiktok. But every other young person I know does.
And now that it owned by a pro-trump company… It’s about to get real difficult.
Why did you think Larry Ellison and his large adult son wanted it so badly?
Holy shit I can have Instagram back without perhaps the algorithm driven anxiety and rage? I had to stop using insta not even out of any leftist purism or ideology bs, it was literally causing me so much grief every single time I opened the app. I probably could have reset my account algo but I just decided enough was enough. I remember now it was during the Charlie Squirt Memorial Fountain reveal aftermath.
You can! There are two choices — Pixelfed is more focusing posting casual pics of your life, or vernissage which is more for pro photographers who want to show off their work. Tell your friends!
I’ll try pixelfed too since I don’t make videos to share much, but I am already really enjoying Loops
i post rock photos on pixelfed it’s great
Now is the time to promote that as much as possible.
I’ve never used TikTok, and I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be seeing in that screenshot. Can someone explain it to me?
I also am not sure, but my read of the screenshot is the three bottom videos relate to the Minnesota ICE protests and Trump, and they are part of a group tagged “expired Stories” in “Your private videos,” two of which have “ineligible for…”.
I interpret this to mean the post is claiming that the stories were ones David Leavitt created that were selectively made private or otherwise ineligible (for…sharing? monetization? unclear) by TikTok without his input.
Ignoring the top level comment, it looks like the original screenshot is cut off but says “ineligable for…” On the thumbnails that look like protest content.
My guess is that OP is pointing out that their protest information is not as visible as their shitposting is.
I have no idea what message they’re trying to get across.
Are they saying that tiktok censoring anti-ice stuff is worse than people being murdered by ice?
I imagine they are saying that this is a bad thing in general. Not worse than ICE committing murders.
I think they’re saying it’s less effective in the short term but extremely effective in the long term and kind of a new magnitude of censorship.
It hurts not in a homicide way, but in a strategical and structurally depraved way.
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My guess is that in the original screenshot, the view numbers are limited for their anti ICE videos, and supposedly suppressed by the algorithm. It’s a pretty common trope on that platform.
Reminder that Democrats including Murphy were pushing to ban TikTok under Biden to censor pro-Palestinian speech. I believe he’s come around on it now that he realizes censorship cuts both ways.
Regardless of how you feel about TikTok (I fucking hate it) any ban or restriction on the internet should be opposed because it’s inevitably used as a tool for censorship.
But at the same time, I do oppose the spamming of AI slop and propaganda. In the same way that I think robo calls should be considered assault. But how do you do that without falling victim to it as you say?
Propaganda by definition can be basically anything, and isn’t inherently bad, it just means someone is spreading a message on purpose. What makes it bad is when it is in support of evil. People often think the solution should be to give control to some central authority which identifies the bad propaganda and filters it out, but that’s a problem because such authorities are subject to powerful perverse incentives and are easily corrupted. Obviously the current US government is going to promote harmful propaganda and suppress necessary propaganda, and even if we can boot them out, the underlying corruption risk will remain.
I think the only actually robust solutions possible will have to involve individuals being able to take on more responsibility for social networks and information sharing, and not leaving it up to a company to decide what everyone sees. The basic premise of TikTok as an endless stream of personally appealing content that a hidden algorithm curates for everyone is inherently dangerous. People should move to some sort of model of sharing information that has more of a community trust dynamic and involves way more people in the work of filtering out bad info, and doesn’t put all the trust in a single party.
TikTok is on the same path as the rest following the fascist money, YouTube & major US news propaganda has played ads like pragerU selling Orbán’s dictatorship, ads funded by Zionists selling the Palestinian genocide as a psy-op by Hamas, ICE recruitment, etc and won’t show shooting footage like they used to do with a warning, now they do a disservice to everyone by censoring how violent reality can be.
Saw the writing on the wall when president elect Fascist 47 “helped” unban TikTok last January. Jumped ship and never looked back.
Them playing their hand to help him get elected didn’t tip you off?
And the person posts this information on Xitter?
9GAG it is, then!
Yeah. I’m shit is hard no fur me. Blocked at the router
I’m shit is hard no fur me
Which one of us is having a stroke?
It no fine, you make good words!
Really wish my favorite creators would move to rednote. Just post in both places, I don’t get the hurdle.
Hi, random human here. I can explain the hurdle.
Basically it comes down to this: I have no idea what rednote is. Never heard of it. I assume it’s like how Lemmy is to Reddit. People know what Reddit is. Nobody knows what Lemmy is.
Now walk out of your house, and ask 100 people “What is tiktok?” And then ask those same people “What is rednote?”
Totally uneducated guess on my part, but I would say 100 out of 100 people know what tiktok is. I would also guess 5 out of 100 would know what rednote is.
That’s the hurdle. Same reason Loops isn’t being used either. People know what one thing is. They don’t know what the other thing is. Regardless of if the features are better, people will always go where the other people are.
I just found out about Loops! What’s a Rednote?
Case in point.
