I suggest watching the video, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1aK7jfLo but the article has an OK summary.
Also a Mastodon shout-out in the video.
I suggest watching the video, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1aK7jfLo but the article has an OK summary.
Also a Mastodon shout-out in the video.
Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.
Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.
At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.
Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.
With you on Tumblr
TT is scarier now that it’s ‘controlled’. in 1984 concepts, I expect they’ll be sending agents to take care of people that are anti-rightwing.
Absolutely, TT is scary and the take-over has been insanely obvious. Despite this people are still regularly making real content and connections on TT. Tiktok, the company and app themselves, are vile and disgusting, but Tiktok, the community, is still largely very decent, imo.