IMO, that site doesn't really look like it wants to succeed. Seems like the mobile apps are still in development, so maybe the site is intentionally like that, for now.
The most obvious difference: When I open that link, I see no video. If I open tiktok.com, I see a video.
That's just from a cursory look though. I've never heard of them, so I could easily be wrong.
I remember Y2K
This kinda sounds similar to how things worked before GitHub, when people just emailed their git patches. Some OSS projects still work that way.
It just seems like a bad tactic. For example, if the US gives Ukraine some software that helps them fight Russia, it's likely tactically advantageous (to Ukraine) if Russia doesn't have the source code.
Of course, it doesn't mean Russia couldn't do some reverse engineering to some extent. But that takes time, and likely wouldn't be as complete/thorough as just handing them the source code.
Some, but probably not all. Seems like it would be a bad move to open-source all military software.
I remember when Rupert Murdoch's company, News Corporation, bought Myspace. Maybe US TikTok will see the same fate
Unpopular opinion: Memes like this just further divide the two sides.
Obviously both sides have crazy, inhumane people on the fringes. But most normal people, regardless of political leaning, did not laugh about any of those three deaths.
I'd suggest Cursor. I was somewhat anti-AI-coding until my job encouraged it, and Cursor (using Claude 4 Sonnet) gave me that "ohh, now I get it" moment.
It's still plenty capable of generating bad code, so it can take a bit of practice to get a feel for how to use it productively.
Fun fact: Base64url is not quite the same as base64. Its alphabet is slightly different from base64 so its characters can be used in more places (URLs, filenames, etc.).
I suppose the tool's name is more clear for those who are aware of those differences, but very unclear for others.
THIS. I don't install social networking apps on my phone (except for Voyager, somewhat recently, if that counts). I tend to find these conversations somewhat hard to follow, because it seems like different people use different versions of the same word... Or maybe the definitions evolve too quickly for those who don't follow it very closely. Idk, I haven't really narrowed it down yet.
But yeah... I honestly don't really know how to identify a fascist. I think it has something to do with right-wing authoritarianism, but I'm not sure I've personally met any right-wing authoritarians, so I'm probably missing something.
And yes, I have attempted to look it up. The results were not very helpful. I assume it's similar to looking up what Nazis were β quite different from how people use the word now.
Thank you for understanding "normal people." π