Back to Vine.
They will disappear
Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.
They’ll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week’s end.
The same as what happened when vine shut down.
Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.
They will cease to exist
Nobody in Lemmy cares until they come for Lemmy I guess
If you base your livelihood on a platform owned by a private company, you’re not really justified if you complain about it being changed or blocked.
Lemmy users aren’t making money from it, so your argument is irrelevant.
Um, actually that’s one perk of federation. It’s much harder to take down networks that are run on dozens or hundreds of servers across the globe… In other words, we already solved this problem, at least in large part.
I don’t know why Amazon hasn’t bought TikTok yet.
Lots of data, access to the Chinese market, a social media app under their wing, and an aligned work culture. Alongside the gains for ads, moving their shit to AWS, and retail gains, it seems like a better idea than throwing money into the AI fire.
Because its not for sale
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was an exceptionally well funded US startup that makes a debut before TikTok is blocked if they don’t sell. TikTok has to weigh the possibility that they can’t compete if they don’t exist.
I doubt it. USA is just one one country, although large. Tik Tok will do fine without it.
Everything is for sale when you are a $1T+ company. That’s why Amazon has the likes of Blink, Ring, Alexa, Anthropic, etc.
Not when there are national political involved
That’s…exactly why you would get involved?
TikTok might lose out on revenue. Why not sell your US arm for lots of money?
This is literally one of the most widely talked-about options regarding the ban of TikTok…
They refused to entertain offers. 1T dollars seems mighty, but TikTok is a multi-year if not multi-decade data collection hub. That data is on the youth of America and their trajectories.
That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.
That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.
that’s why their banning it; they can’t control it in the way they want
They’ll live happily ever after in their TikTok houses.
Deported.
Start using a VPN…
Think of all the Russian jobs spreading misinformation on Tik Tok that will be lost!
Oh no! Anyway…
Better question: Will the world rejoice in having a social media network without Americans?
It’s already banned in Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Taiwan, Denmark, European Union, France, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Somalia, and United Kingdom.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/these-countries-have-already-banned-tiktok
A post so inaccurate it belongs on tic toc.
That’s very inaccurate information.
It’s basically only the government officials who can’t have the app installed on their phones, for security reasons.
That’s it.
Am from the Netherlands. Can confirm TikTok hasn’t been blocked yet. I think the ban only applies to some government officials, and I don’t think it’s enforced well for most of those.
A lot of these are partial bans. Canada for example only bans it for government issued phones which makes sense, there shouldn’t be any apps let alone social media apps on those devices.
Same with Australia. Seems a bit disingenuous to say it’s banned, it’s a government worker policy.
And it’s also only banned on work devices. There’s no ban on government employees having TikTok on their personal phones, although I personally don’t.
Sure. Exactly the same in France.
Yeah same for Australia.
Same for Belgium
Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels. I don’t have Instagram but the YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway.
Ideally Pixelfed would win but that’s very hopeful, a lot of the creators are expecting to be paid.
There’s too much money to be made with the format for it to die yet.
YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway
Hey that’s not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.
And in a fucked up vertical crop, for some reason!
The reason is that too be a Short it has to be vertical.
That’s… amazingly idiotic.
It was explicitly created to be “TikTok, but on YouTube”. What would you expect?
I expect nothing and I’m still let down.
Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels.
Likely YouTube. While neither are great, between Google and Meta, Google’s got the better reputation. YouTube also has a larger audience, because it includes a ton of users who wouldn’t fall under traditional social media usage. Reels might be used as a periphery platform to drive more people to their main channel on YouTube.
Any TikTok creator who moves to Instagram full-time is either shooting themselves in the foot, or got a good contract from Meta.
I do like the YouTube integration. A good chunk of them have a link to a main long form video which is nice when you don’t want to watch a video in 50 parts. You can scroll and be like, that’s a cool project let me watch the full 30 mins video.
Are YouTube shorts still 1 minute maximum? Until that changes, I don’t think they’ll be a viable replacement since content longer than a minute seems to be the sweet spot for a sizeable amount of Tiktok’s user base. Especially when it comes to informative or political content.
YouTube also supports longer videos outside of shorts. And they don’t even have to be in portrait mode. /j
