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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

programs you to be a moron

Man, sucks to be a product of the days when the only way to become a moron was with consistent effort and practice. Gone is the appreciation for craft, for the artisinal, home-grown moron.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

It's funny because TV arguably already did that before the internet had chuds on centralized social media run by the worst capitalists imaginable

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Outside of the use of the term "punk", literally any GOP ghoul would say this.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

This is the least cool person I've ever read about

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Many Democrats too.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

alex-aware This algorithm that delivers more content like the content I like and consume keeps showing me cognitively debilitating content that I continue to like and consume! Those evil Chinese app developers!

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also, what's the alternative? Every other social media app, including the one you're using to post this would jump at the opportunity to have their own version of TikTok, in fact, they have tried and failed.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s exactly it. Kick out evil menacing oriental TikTok, replace with good wholesome all-American Instagram Reels By MetaTM

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everyone (in the tech media particularly, but also in lay commentary) seems to frame this as a matter of TikTok having the secret algorithmic sauce which the Silicon Valley firms are unable to replicate, and unable to compete with, but I truly think this is a red herring. What TikTok has (or lacks, rather) is the abysmal reputation of its Silicon Valley competitors. Due to this, it was able to attract a large number of content creators who have zero interest in setting up shop on Facebook's fifth platform, or any skuldugging Silicon Valley ad-tech company with the capital to create their own Twitter / YouTube / Instagram rip-off.

TikTok has been a rich source of original content from the beginning, many of which gets re-posted by fans on other websites. Meanwhile, whenever Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey spin up a new platform, it is dominated by communications interns and brand accounts, just treating it as a fifteenth place to dump their corporate promotions.

Note that many of the most successful monopoly platforms today (setting aside Facebook itself, the canonical monopoly platform) grew popular before their acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitch, YouTube, etc. I think it is impossible for a company like Google, Amazon, or Meta to come out and openly found a successful platform at this late date, and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the technology. Even though Meta was in the right time and place to launch Threads, nobody apparently uses it aside from Burger King. Everyone migrated instead to BlueSky (which is perceived as independent for some reason) or, to a smaller degree, Mastodon.

The "problem" with TikTok is not their superior, inscrutable technology, but the fact that they are unwilling to be swallowed up like Instagram. Their intransigent Chinese owners don't understand that they're obligated to sell when a briefcase full of money is thrown in their face.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So being pro-US and anti-communist is considered punk to this dork? I don't think TikTok did that to them.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

umm they have a PhD in punk sooo

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is why I always say that Punk is an aesthetic

It doesn't actually mean anything

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

I don't even like brace-watching all that much, but his assessment of punk culture is on point.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's definitely the app that made Americans stupid as fuck and not like, idk, the rotting public education system and lack of opportunities for personal growth for everyone but the already rich.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

You don't remember when ByteDance's CEO personally defunded the education system? It was all done explicitly because the board of directors (Xi Jinping and seven sockpuppets) told him to.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what is there for tiktok to defend against?

the main concerns were with what they did with the data and the data they collected and they already showed they collected less than american companies and did nothing with it that american companies do. the second was their algorithm which the main concern was that it promoted disharmonious sentiment in america to cause trouble but for instance they showed that with the israel palestine thing they had to suppress palestinian content in the algorithm and promote israel content on the platform because people were so anti-israel on tiktok in general that israeli content was being drowned out. so in fact they were doing the opposite of what people claimed.

their primary investors are also based in america and all their data warehouses are based in america

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Nothing, it's just them wanting it to be completely American so it's easier to control what is shown.

Ie stop going against Isreali hasbara and powers that be

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 months ago

'national security concerns' oh you mean refusing to censor genocide footage in the algorithm like Facebook reddit and google do okay gotcha

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought they did give up the algorithm. Isn't it basically the same as any social media algorithm and Oracle got to review all their code?

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah and all the data is warehoused in Texas.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Punk people, famous for... Not circumventing bans and accessing/distributing forbidden information or products through illegal means. No punk would use drugs or read banned books or attend a show in an illegal venue.

[–] TheRealChrisR@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Is this AOC?

[–] regul@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Alex famously loved getting Clockwork Orange'd.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not a yank could someone give a run down of this 'ban' I thought it would only affected federal employees?