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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

For anyone looking for new alternatives, I'm sure most Lemmy users can suggest more open-source pubfed options, but for anyone trying to generate a bit more presence (not that there's much) I did find a YouTube video highlighting some "indie social media" sites, mostly focusing on nostalgia of simpler versions of the historically popular ones.

Having the whole world operate off of publically-owned shared systems is probably an ideal, but having them at least in tight competition, with easy destinations to abandon off to, is still quite a bit better.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I hate how percentages from 100% and up are used ambiguously.

e.g. 150% vs +150%

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

I 200% agree with this.

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I interpret "up %150" as + %150

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I just recently deleted my account and uninstalled the app. I'm not going to lie, it was hard because I had finally curated my algo to some pretty decent content that wasn't just brainrot trash.

But I'd rather be bored than give Oracle anything.

EDIT: Also Loops is neat from a technical standpoint, but it feels like a ghost town coming from TikTok.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of these services really hinge on a tight-knit community of active content producers who fuel engagement and reap some kind of dividend on the back end.

Loops is a technology but it's not much of a business. The company is literally run by just two guys. They're not going to bring on prolific content producers without a much more aggressive marketing strategy.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

The guy literally said to ramp up government surveillance so that citizens are on their best behaviour. So anyone still using TikTok after this is asking for it.

[–] ShiftAlfa@europe.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago

Never downloaded it...

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The US fascists are doing a hard push on all social media in general ramping up at least since a few weeks ago. Seth Andrew's thinking atheist channel was dropped for no reason from yt, which by itself isn't unheard of, but several other popular religious debate channels (deconstruction zone, allegedly Ian, etc) are seeing a huge drop in opposition, religious callers starting at the same time when much of those were coming from TikTok and yt giving them a fair shake at recommendations based on their view counts. Yt is delisting or excluding from search results videos more now instead of demonetizing as well.

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