Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days agoI don’t believe for a second people use TikTok because they have objections to the data collecting practices of Reels or whatever. They do it because it managed to be super addictive and get the network effect going faster than anybody else.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 days ago
In the beginning, sure. But all the TikTok users actively choosing Chinese alternatives would seem to disagree with that, now.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
That is in interesting phenomenon. I suspect it’s just out of spite, because people not understanding the technology is almost like a new law of the internet, and that it’ll blow over eventually.
If it doesn’t, WTF, basically. People are already getting kicked off of Xiaohongshu for being openly gay.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 days ago
I hate to link to Reddit (and I’m too old to know how to get to the original video), but this also seems pretty relevant: reddit.com/…/if_tiktok_being_banned_doesnt_radica…
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Man, if any of that youth passion had shown up at the polls we (yes, including us in the rest of the world) wouldn’t have this problem in the first place. Somehow the fervour never translates away from from the soft keyboard, though - probably because it’s mostly fake. God, we’re the worst.