Yup my a lot of my non-nerd/techy friends are finally starting to do it with tiktok and on top of that they are starting to care a sliver more about their privacy.
The distrust of tiktok, meta, and google is growing. There is hope.
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Where do they get the publicly available account deletion stats?
I think Tik Tok is required to record those numbers and share them with shareholders as such data would tell one they are worth investing or not.
Really? So there are databases of these numbers for all companies? Or is this unique to TikTok?
All the companies I would imagine. And it’s not information hard to record. After all it’s just Tiktok looking at how many accounts they have and then saying how many deleted
But deleting your account is not the same as deleting the app. You can do either without the other
Sure? I don’t know what I wrote implied I was saying app as I didn’t use that word whatsoever
The article is about users deleting the app. You said they could tell who did that by counting how many accounts were deleted. You can't because those are different things
Ah I see. Well logic is still the same. It would be weird for any app to not be informed from the App Stores how many downloaded and deleted (because of course apple and Google would track those.)
Probably App Store metrics too. But I’m not sure how public those are, though I guarantee it’s tracked by Apple and Google to be shared with (at minimum) the app developer.
Ahh that makes sense.
People were happy to use the Pet Cemetery version of Tiktok since Elon took office last January… Better late than never I guess.
The tiktok algorithm is what made it valuable, as well as a search function that beats Google in finding and presenting relevant results. I hope upcoming competitors can match it
Let it die.
If Trump stepped in to save Tik Tok then you know he's making money off of some sort of nefarious bullshit.
They're and were collecting info on gender, race and religion. Lots of info for Trump and his Maga buddies.
Lie machine needs to die .
Why aren't people leaving X too? Also meta socials too?
UpScrolled looks like a promising alternative.
Another proprietary, singularly-owned platform vulnerable to hostile takeovers by wealthy propagandists?
I really hope Dansup is still putting in some work on Loops. This would really be a great time.
As a loops user, I find it a decent alternative to TicToc. It just doesn't have that much content on it as compared to TicToc.
It's also lacking in a lot of features used heavily on TT, such as a library of popular music to use without risk of copyright infringement. TT and YT have the resources to license that material, but that kind of feature will likely never make it to a fedi platform. Dansup really needs to figure this out, as it's a bit of a "killer feature" that Loops is missing and has no solution for.
promising alternative
We already have an alternative, and its on the fediverse. Its called loops and it doesn't include proprietary garbage.
Good start
That was predictable.
China doesn’t care, it’s done its job and then some.